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Can a hard drive be physically damaged due to power loss at startup?
I have a laptop whose battier is dead. During booting up the power
cord became unplugged from the transformer. When I tried to reboot I got a message about a second partition, which I did not have on the hard drive. I assumed scandisk would run automatically and things would straighten out. In my early try at getting the hard drive to boot I also got a message that WINDOWS 98 HAS DECTECTED THAT DRIVE C DOES NOT CONTAIN A VALID FAT or FAT32 PARTITION. Here are some of the things I have tried and the messages I then got: When I tried to install windows 98SE from the CD I got. SET UP CANNOT INSTALL WINDOWS 98ON YOUR COMPUTER AN ERROR WAS DETECTED WHILE TRYING TO READ OR WRITE TO YOUR HARD DISK I tried at the a and then at the D and the C prompt FDISK I got one set in where it asks to enable large disk support (my HD is 6.5 GB) I tried yes first then no but both times it said ERROR READING FIXED DISK Tried A:\format c:/s still no luck. Winbook the laptop manufacturer had some instructions on reinstalling the OS. I tried with the CD in D:\win98 C: and get INVALID DRIVE SPECIFICATIONS. When D was in and booted from I no longer could get a C prompt to come up at all. Could get an A prompt then typed C: after it but got the same error message. Got to an A prompt an again and tried C:\windows\command\deltree.exe and got same error message as above. I booted with the floppy and tried all the above still no use. I got BAD COMMAND OR FILE NAME. Then tried C:\windows and got CDR101: not ready reading drive D abort retry. I put the CD in and hit retry and got BAD COMMAND OR FILE NAME. I am using a boot floppy that makes a Ramdisk and at start up it does say THE DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS WERE SUCCESSFULLY LOADED TO DRIVE C. Does this really mean that they were loaded in RAM and not on the C drive since it seems I can't read or write to it? I have run scandisk and it reports no problem with C drive. In the start up I see that my primary master IDE drive shows and in the blue screen BIOS under Auto detect hard disk it shows and all seems ok as far as the specs only the serial number does not show anything. At startup the drive access light flashes and I can here it. At start up it says pri master hard drive S.M.A.R.T. Command failed. I think this is the first roadblock problem why I can't boot. I changed it from auto in the advanced setup to disabled still no luck. What exactly is S.M.A.R.T.? I then got a diagnostic bootable CD from Hitachi the hard drive maker and ran their DRIVE FITNESS TEST. It reported one or more corrupted sectors found. When I said fix the sector it failed. I then tried to erase the disk using their program and also got a failed. My question from above is how can a hard drive that I never had a problem with go bad because of the power going off but still appear to the computer as being there with drive lamp working? Is there code always on the hard drive that is not in its ROM that is screwed up and I will never be able to right that. Could I have done in some RAM (firmware setting) contained and set in its circuit board that I will never be able to fix? My last information in this novel I have posted here is that the Hitachi utility reported FAILURE CODE 0x75 DEFECTIVE DEVICE COMPONENT FAILED TECHNICAL RESULT CODE 7573DCF0. Again how can scan disk say no problem and the manufacturer's utility says failure with hardware? |
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Can a hard drive be physically damaged due to power loss at startup?
"DJW" wrote in message ...
I have a laptop whose battier is dead. During booting up the power cord became unplugged from the transformer. When I tried to reboot I got a message about a second partition, which I did not have on the hard drive. I assumed scandisk would run automatically and things would straighten out. In my early try at getting the hard drive to boot I also got a message that WINDOWS 98 HAS DECTECTED THAT DRIVE C DOES NOT CONTAIN A VALID FAT or FAT32 PARTITION. Here are some of the things I have tried and the messages I then got: When I tried to install windows 98SE from the CD I got. SET UP CANNOT INSTALL WINDOWS 98ON YOUR COMPUTER AN ERROR WAS DETECTED WHILE TRYING TO READ OR WRITE TO YOUR HARD DISK The hard drive is defective, misconfigured or not properly connected. I tried at the a and then at the D and the C prompt FDISK I got one set in where it asks to enable large disk support (my HD is 6.5 GB) I tried yes first then no but both times it said ERROR READING FIXED DISK Tried A:\format c:/s still no luck. Winbook the laptop manufacturer had some instructions on reinstalling the OS. I tried with the CD in D:\win98 C: and get INVALID DRIVE SPECIFICATIONS. When D was in and booted from I no longer could get a C prompt to come up at all. Could get an A prompt then typed C: after it but got the same error message. Got to an A prompt an again and tried C:\windows\command\deltree.exe and got same error message as above. I booted with the floppy and tried all the above still no use. I got BAD COMMAND OR FILE NAME. Then tried C:\windows and got CDR101: not ready reading drive D abort retry. I put the CD in and hit retry and got BAD COMMAND OR FILE NAME. I am using a boot floppy that makes a Ramdisk and at start up it does say THE DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS WERE SUCCESSFULLY LOADED TO DRIVE C. Does this really mean that they were loaded in RAM and not on the C drive since it seems I can't read or write to it? Windows 98 setup creates a RAM drive using the next available drive letter. If DOS doesn't find a hard drive during bootup, the next available drive letter is "C:". I have run scandisk and it reports no problem with C drive. In the start up I see that my primary master IDE drive shows and in the blue screen BIOS under Auto detect hard disk it shows and all seems ok as far as the specs only the serial number does not show anything. At startup the drive access light flashes and I can here it. At start up it says pri master hard drive S.M.A.R.T. Command failed. I think this is the first roadblock problem why I can't boot. I changed it from auto in the advanced setup to disabled still no luck. What exactly is S.M.A.R.T.? See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-Mo...ing_Technology I then got a diagnostic bootable CD from Hitachi the hard drive maker and ran their DRIVE FITNESS TEST. It reported one or more corrupted sectors found. When I said fix the sector it failed. I then tried to erase the disk using their program and also got a failed. My question from above is how can a hard drive that I never had a problem with go bad because of the power going off but still appear to the computer as being there with drive lamp working? Is there code always on the hard drive that is not in its ROM that is screwed up and I will never be able to right that. Could I have done in some RAM (firmware setting) contained and set in its circuit board that I will never be able to fix? My last information in this novel I have posted here is that the Hitachi utility reported FAILURE CODE 0x75 DEFECTIVE DEVICE COMPONENT FAILED TECHNICAL RESULT CODE 7573DCF0. Again how can scan disk say no problem and the manufacturer's utility says failure with hardware? Scandisk was checking the RAM drive and the Hitachi application was trying to access the hard drive. Try a known good hard drive or put the one with the problem in a known good computer. If these options are impractical, try removing and reinserting the hard drive, since poor connections can cause this kind of problem. Ben |
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Can a hard drive be physically damaged due to power loss at startup?
DJW wrote:
I have a laptop whose battier is dead. During booting up the power cord became unplugged from the transformer. When I tried to reboot I got a message about a second partition, which I did not have on the It is just possible you might have had and not known it - some laptop manufacturers set up a tiny one, containing I think the BIOS settings or something (My Toshiba 1750 does). This is not visible as a drive D: or anything in Windows (or even DOS), or at least it may not be (isn't on mine). (I don't think this is relevant to your case though.) hard drive. I assumed scandisk would run automatically and things would straighten out. In my early try at getting the hard drive to No, for scandisk to run, it needs to at least partly boot (to read the scandisk executable if nothing else!), which it can't if the HD is corrupted in the wrong way. boot I also got a message that WINDOWS 98 HAS DECTECTED THAT DRIVE C DOES NOT CONTAIN A VALID FAT or FAT32 PARTITION. I presume you were booting from a floppy (or CD) at that point - if from the C: drive, then it is odd, because where did the operating system that is telling you that come from! Assuming you are from a floppy or CD, then yes, you'd get that message if the HD was either damaged or corrupted. Here are some of the things I have tried and the messages I then got: When I tried to install windows 98SE from the CD I got. SET UP CANNOT INSTALL WINDOWS 98ON YOUR COMPUTER AN ERROR WAS DETECTED WHILE TRYING TO READ OR WRITE TO YOUR HARD DISK I've never tried booting from the W98SE CD, so I don't know if it tries to do an FDISK if it can't read the HD. I tried at the a and then at the D and the C prompt FDISK I got one set in where it asks to enable large disk support (my HD is 6.5 GB) I Yes, IIRR the "large" disc is one over half a gigabyte (I think the FDISK utility is somewhat older than '98!). tried yes first then no but both times it said ERROR READING FIXED Hmm. That sounds very much as if the hardware is not responding. It might be worth just waggling its connectors (after all, its worth anything at this point), but I suspect it's dead. Even if it were to have been scrambled beyond what FDISK can fix (this can happen), "error reading" suggests a hardware fault: with something else (such as an NTFS partition), FDISK should still be able to see the hardware. DISK Tried A:\format c:/s still no luck. No, format is only used once there are FAT (usually FAT32) partitions there. (FDISK makes partitions.) Winbook the laptop manufacturer had some instructions on reinstalling the OS. I tried with the CD in D:\win98 C: and get INVALID DRIVE SPECIFICATIONS. When D was in and booted from I no longer could get a C prompt to come up at all. Could get an A prompt then typed C: after it but got the same error message. Got to an A prompt an again and tried C:\windows\command\deltree.exe and got same error message as Any DOS command that starts C:\... (I mean you type that, not it there as the prompt) is trying to run something from the C: drive, which will fail if the C: drive isn't responding or hasn't got a recognisable and formatted partition. [] and got BAD COMMAND OR FILE NAME. I am using a boot floppy that makes a Ramdisk and at start up it does say THE DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS WERE SUCCESSFULLY LOADED TO DRIVE C. Does this really mean that they were loaded in RAM and not on the C drive since it seems I can't read or write to it? Yes. That boot floppy makes a RAM drive, which it gives the first free letter: A: (and B: for historical reasons) are reserved for floppy drives, so you'd normally expect the RAMdrive to be D: (and the CD drive to be E: if you booted with CD support, which is the default). The fact that it has used C: suggests that that letter wasn't taken, i. e. no recognised hard drive. I have run scandisk and it reports no problem with C drive. That is extremely puzzling - oh, did you mean after booting from that floppy? If so, then scandisk was checking the RAMdrive that the floppy created! (It should have responded virtually instantly if that is the case; a scandisk of a hard drive should take minutes or hours.) In the start up I see that my primary master IDE drive shows and in the blue screen BIOS under Auto detect hard disk it shows and all Hmm, that _sort_ of suggests the (E)IDE controller might be working (that was another think I thought about), as well as the _electronics_ of the drive. (So many different kinds of drive, BIOS, controller, etc. - I don't know if they all do report their serial number.) seems ok as far as the specs only the serial number does not show anything. At startup the drive access light flashes and I can here it. At start up it says pri master hard drive S.M.A.R.T. Command failed. I think this is the first roadblock problem why I can't boot. I changed it from auto in the advanced setup to disabled still no luck. What exactly is S.M.A.R.T.? I can't remember exactly what it stands for, but its some self-diagnostic capability that has been in hard drives (and a few other things) for quite a few years now. I then got a diagnostic bootable CD from Hitachi the hard drive maker and ran their DRIVE FITNESS TEST. It reported one or more corrupted sectors found. When I said fix the sector it failed. I then tried to erase the disk using their program and also got a failed. This does sound like it's genuinely dud. One thing that might be worth a try is putting it into another computer and running the same diagnostic - obviously you'd have to buy (or borrow, ideally) a drive connector adaptor, unless the other PC is a laptop too; however, I don't hold out much hope. My question from above is how can a hard drive that I never had a problem with go bad because of the power going off but still appear to the computer as being there with drive lamp working? Is there code The "appearing to be there" and the lamp working only tell you that the electronics of the drive are working (or partially so); they don't tell you whether it's physically actually going round, or the head moving, or not. (A bit like a tape recorder where the motor has failed - it will still relay signals from its inputs to its outputs, light its meters, and so on.) always on the hard drive that is not in its ROM that is screwed up and I will never be able to right that. Could I have done in some RAM (firmware setting) contained and set in its circuit board that I will never be able to fix? My last information in this novel I have posted here is that the Hitachi utility reported FAILURE CODE 0x75 DEFECTIVE DEVICE COMPONENT FAILED TECHNICAL RESULT CODE 7573DCF0. Again how can scan disk say no problem and the manufacturer's utility says failure with hardware? That does sound like a fairly definite hardware fault. I _think_ scandisk was scanning the RAM drive that your floppy made (i. e. part of the PCs RAM set aside to look like a disc). Run scandisk again, and select surface scan when it gets to that point: it should tell you how long it thinks it's going to take, and this should definitely be at the least a matter of minutes - could be hours, but if it's seconds, you're not scanning the hard drive. If you do get to the point where it's running the surface scan, I _think_ you should be able to hear it (a) spinning and (b) moving the head (a click from once or twice a second to every few seconds), though I'm not too sure how audible these are with a laptop drive. (The manufacturer's utility would have made similar noises, anyway.) Doing a DIR on the same disc letter as you're running scandisk on will also confirm it (i. e. if you're doing "scandisk C:", or even just "scandisk", then do "dir C:" or just "dir"), from the size: the amount of free space shown by DOS DIR is in bytes, not K or M or G, so if it's a nine or less digit number, you're not looking at the HD. (I might be wrong about it being in bytes - but if it is in KB or MB, I'm pretty sure it says so with a K or an M.) When you had the mishap with the power cable, did you at the same time jerk the laptop? (Though even if you didn't, you could still have been unlucky and caused damage - they're _usually_ fairly robust against power interruptions, especially laptop drives, but not entirely. Come to think of it, the robustness is to some extent that they use the rotational energy of the drive to lift the heads away and park them safely, but if you interrupted it while it was spinning up, it wouldn't _have_ that energy to use, so could well have crashed and damaged a sector - and if it did hard enough to do that, possibly the head as well.) -- J. P. Gilliver | Tel. +44 1634 203298 Essex home for sale, £59,950: see http://www.soft255.demon.co.uk/home/ |
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Can a hard drive be physically damaged due to power loss at startup?
"DJW" wrote in message ... I have a laptop whose battier is dead. During booting up the power cord became unplugged from the transformer. When I tried to reboot I got a message about a second partition, which I did not have on the hard drive. I assumed scandisk would run automatically and things would straighten out. In my early try at getting the hard drive to boot I also got a message that WINDOWS 98 HAS DECTECTED THAT DRIVE C DOES NOT CONTAIN A VALID FAT or FAT32 PARTITION. Here are some of the things I have tried and the messages I then got: When I tried to install windows 98SE from the CD I got. SET UP CANNOT INSTALL WINDOWS 98ON YOUR COMPUTER AN ERROR WAS DETECTED WHILE TRYING TO READ OR WRITE TO YOUR HARD DISK I tried at the a and then at the D and the C prompt FDISK I got one set in where it asks to enable large disk support (my HD is 6.5 GB) I tried yes first then no but both times it said ERROR READING FIXED DISK Tried A:\format c:/s still no luck. Winbook the laptop manufacturer had some instructions on reinstalling the OS. I tried with the CD in D:\win98 C: and get INVALID DRIVE SPECIFICATIONS. When D was in and booted from I no longer could get a C prompt to come up at all. Could get an A prompt then typed C: after it but got the same error message. Got to an A prompt an again and tried C:\windows\command\deltree.exe and got same error message as above. I booted with the floppy and tried all the above still no use. I got BAD COMMAND OR FILE NAME. Then tried C:\windows and got CDR101: not ready reading drive D abort retry. I put the CD in and hit retry and got BAD COMMAND OR FILE NAME. I am using a boot floppy that makes a Ramdisk and at start up it does say THE DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS WERE SUCCESSFULLY LOADED TO DRIVE C. Does this really mean that they were loaded in RAM and not on the C drive since it seems I can't read or write to it? I have run scandisk and it reports no problem with C drive. In the start up I see that my primary master IDE drive shows and in the blue screen BIOS under Auto detect hard disk it shows and all seems ok as far as the specs only the serial number does not show anything. At startup the drive access light flashes and I can here it. At start up it says pri master hard drive S.M.A.R.T. Command failed. I think this is the first roadblock problem why I can't boot. I changed it from auto in the advanced setup to disabled still no luck. What exactly is S.M.A.R.T.? That's a bios monitor for your HD. It has at least partially failed I then got a diagnostic bootable CD from Hitachi the hard drive maker and ran their DRIVE FITNESS TEST. It reported one or more corrupted sectors found. When I said fix the sector it failed. I then tried to erase the disk using their program and also got a failed. My question from above is how can a hard drive that I never had a problem with go bad because of the power going off but still appear to the computer as being there with drive lamp working? Is there code always on the hard drive that is not in its ROM that is screwed up and I will never be able to right that. Could I have done in some RAM (firmware setting) contained and set in its circuit board that I will never be able to fix? My last information in this novel I have posted here is that the Hitachi utility reported FAILURE CODE 0x75 DEFECTIVE DEVICE COMPONENT FAILED TECHNICAL RESULT CODE 7573DCF0. Again how can scan disk say no problem and the manufacturer's utility says failure with hardware? |
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On Feb 28, 3:02 pm, "philo" wrote:
"DJW" wrote in message ... I have a laptop whose battier is dead. During booting up the power cord became unplugged from the transformer. When I tried to reboot I got a message about a second partition, which I did not have on the hard drive. I assumed scandisk would run automatically and things would straighten out. In my early try at getting the hard drive to boot I also got a message that WINDOWS 98 HAS DECTECTED THAT DRIVE C DOES NOT CONTAIN A VALID FAT or FAT32 PARTITION. Here are some of the things I have tried and the messages I then got: When I tried to install windows 98SE from the CD I got. SET UP CANNOT INSTALL WINDOWS 98ON YOUR COMPUTER AN ERROR WAS DETECTED WHILE TRYING TO READ OR WRITE TO YOUR HARD DISK I tried at the a and then at the D and the C prompt FDISK I got one set in where it asks to enable large disk support (my HD is 6.5 GB) I tried yes first then no but both times it said ERROR READING FIXED DISK Tried A:\format c:/s still no luck. Winbook the laptop manufacturer had some instructions on reinstalling the OS. I tried with the CD in D:\win98 C: and get INVALID DRIVE SPECIFICATIONS. When D was in and booted from I no longer could get a C prompt to come up at all. Could get an A prompt then typed C: after it but got the same error message. Got to an A prompt an again and tried C:\windows\command\deltree.exe and got same error message as above. I booted with the floppy and tried all the above still no use. I got BAD COMMAND OR FILE NAME. Then tried C:\windows and got CDR101: not ready reading drive D abort retry. I put the CD in and hit retry and got BAD COMMAND OR FILE NAME. I am using a boot floppy that makes a Ramdisk and at start up it does say THE DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS WERE SUCCESSFULLY LOADED TO DRIVE C. Does this really mean that they were loaded in RAM and not on the C drive since it seems I can't read or write to it? I have run scandisk and it reports no problem with C drive. In the start up I see that my primary master IDE drive shows and in the blue screen BIOS under Auto detect hard disk it shows and all seems ok as far as the specs only the serial number does not show anything. At startup the drive access light flashes and I can here it. At start up it says pri master hard drive S.M.A.R.T. Command failed. I think this is the first roadblock problem why I can't boot. I changed it from auto in the advanced setup to disabled still no luck. What exactly is S.M.A.R.T.? That's a bios monitor for your HD. It has at least partially failed I then got a diagnostic bootable CD from Hitachi the hard drive maker and ran their DRIVE FITNESS TEST. It reported one or more corrupted sectors found. When I said fix the sector it failed. I then tried to erase the disk using their program and also got a failed. My question from above is how can a hard drive that I never had a problem with go bad because of the power going off but still appear to the computer as being there with drive lamp working? Is there code always on the hard drive that is not in its ROM that is screwed up and I will never be able to right that. Could I have done in some RAM (firmware setting) contained and set in its circuit board that I will never be able to fix? My last information in this novel I have posted here is that the Hitachi utility reported FAILURE CODE 0x75 DEFECTIVE DEVICE COMPONENT FAILED TECHNICAL RESULT CODE 7573DCF0. Again how can scan disk say no problem and the manufacturer's utility says failure with hardware? I have plugged and unplugged it four times already. If the CMOS battery was dead would if had not keep the time could this be the problem. No it did not get moved at all and I think I do hear the thing spin and the actuator move when I see the access lamp flash.. The scandisk did happen very fast. So if I boot with a floppy A what would be the command line to try the scan disk? I saw on bootdisk.com a floppy maker that had no ramdisk should I make it and try it and see what happens would that be easier for me to scandisk with out confusion? Could the firmware be screwed up? I never had a problem before the plug got pulled out at startup. |
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"DJW" wrote in message ... On Feb 28, 3:02 pm, "philo" wrote: "DJW" wrote in message ... I have a laptop whose battier is dead. During booting up the power cord became unplugged from the transformer. When I tried to reboot I got a message about a second partition, which I did not have on the hard drive. I assumed scandisk would run automatically and things would straighten out. In my early try at getting the hard drive to boot I also got a message that WINDOWS 98 HAS DECTECTED THAT DRIVE C DOES NOT CONTAIN A VALID FAT or FAT32 PARTITION. Here are some of the things I have tried and the messages I then got: When I tried to install windows 98SE from the CD I got. SET UP CANNOT INSTALL WINDOWS 98ON YOUR COMPUTER AN ERROR WAS DETECTED WHILE TRYING TO READ OR WRITE TO YOUR HARD DISK I tried at the a and then at the D and the C prompt FDISK I got one set in where it asks to enable large disk support (my HD is 6.5 GB) I tried yes first then no but both times it said ERROR READING FIXED DISK Tried A:\format c:/s still no luck. Winbook the laptop manufacturer had some instructions on reinstalling the OS. I tried with the CD in D:\win98 C: and get INVALID DRIVE SPECIFICATIONS. When D was in and booted from I no longer could get a C prompt to come up at all. Could get an A prompt then typed C: after it but got the same error message. Got to an A prompt an again and tried C:\windows\command\deltree.exe and got same error message as above. I booted with the floppy and tried all the above still no use. I got BAD COMMAND OR FILE NAME. Then tried C:\windows and got CDR101: not ready reading drive D abort retry. I put the CD in and hit retry and got BAD COMMAND OR FILE NAME. I am using a boot floppy that makes a Ramdisk and at start up it does say THE DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS WERE SUCCESSFULLY LOADED TO DRIVE C. Does this really mean that they were loaded in RAM and not on the C drive since it seems I can't read or write to it? I have run scandisk and it reports no problem with C drive. In the start up I see that my primary master IDE drive shows and in the blue screen BIOS under Auto detect hard disk it shows and all seems ok as far as the specs only the serial number does not show anything. At startup the drive access light flashes and I can here it. At start up it says pri master hard drive S.M.A.R.T. Command failed. I think this is the first roadblock problem why I can't boot. I changed it from auto in the advanced setup to disabled still no luck. What exactly is S.M.A.R.T.? That's a bios monitor for your HD. It has at least partially failed I then got a diagnostic bootable CD from Hitachi the hard drive maker and ran their DRIVE FITNESS TEST. It reported one or more corrupted sectors found. When I said fix the sector it failed. I then tried to erase the disk using their program and also got a failed. My question from above is how can a hard drive that I never had a problem with go bad because of the power going off but still appear to the computer as being there with drive lamp working? Is there code always on the hard drive that is not in its ROM that is screwed up and I will never be able to right that. Could I have done in some RAM (firmware setting) contained and set in its circuit board that I will never be able to fix? My last information in this novel I have posted here is that the Hitachi utility reported FAILURE CODE 0x75 DEFECTIVE DEVICE COMPONENT FAILED TECHNICAL RESULT CODE 7573DCF0. Again how can scan disk say no problem and the manufacturer's utility says failure with hardware? I have plugged and unplugged it four times already. If the CMOS battery was dead would if had not keep the time could this be the problem. No it did not get moved at all and I think I do hear the thing spin and the actuator move when I see the access lamp flash.. The scandisk did happen very fast. So if I boot with a floppy A what would be the command line to try the scan disk? I saw on bootdisk.com a floppy maker that had no ramdisk should I make it and try it and see what happens would that be easier for me to scandisk with out confusion? Could the firmware be screwed up? I never had a problem before the plug got pulled out at startup. Though you can run scandisk C: from the floppy it will only repair logical errors ***which could possibly make things worse*** scandisk will correct logical errors, it could possibly write any data you have into chk files. at any rate, if a drive registers a SMART error it *must* be replaced Your best chance to at least recover your data would be to slave the drive into another computer... laptop to IDE adaptors are only a few $$$ and avail at most any computer parts vendor |
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Can a hard drive be physically damaged due to power loss at startup?
"DJW" wrote in message ... On Feb 28, 3:02 pm, "philo" wrote: "DJW" wrote in message ... I have a laptop whose battier is dead. During booting up the power cord became unplugged from the transformer. When I tried to reboot I got a message about a second partition, which I did not have on the hard drive. I assumed scandisk would run automatically and things would straighten out. In my early try at getting the hard drive to boot I also got a message that WINDOWS 98 HAS DECTECTED THAT DRIVE C DOES NOT CONTAIN A VALID FAT or FAT32 PARTITION. Here are some of the things I have tried and the messages I then got: When I tried to install windows 98SE from the CD I got. SET UP CANNOT INSTALL WINDOWS 98ON YOUR COMPUTER AN ERROR WAS DETECTED WHILE TRYING TO READ OR WRITE TO YOUR HARD DISK I tried at the a and then at the D and the C prompt FDISK I got one set in where it asks to enable large disk support (my HD is 6.5 GB) I tried yes first then no but both times it said ERROR READING FIXED DISK Tried A:\format c:/s still no luck. Winbook the laptop manufacturer had some instructions on reinstalling the OS. I tried with the CD in D:\win98 C: and get INVALID DRIVE SPECIFICATIONS. When D was in and booted from I no longer could get a C prompt to come up at all. Could get an A prompt then typed C: after it but got the same error message. Got to an A prompt an again and tried C:\windows\command\deltree.exe and got same error message as above. I booted with the floppy and tried all the above still no use. I got BAD COMMAND OR FILE NAME. Then tried C:\windows and got CDR101: not ready reading drive D abort retry. I put the CD in and hit retry and got BAD COMMAND OR FILE NAME. I am using a boot floppy that makes a Ramdisk and at start up it does say THE DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS WERE SUCCESSFULLY LOADED TO DRIVE C. Does this really mean that they were loaded in RAM and not on the C drive since it seems I can't read or write to it? I have run scandisk and it reports no problem with C drive. In the start up I see that my primary master IDE drive shows and in the blue screen BIOS under Auto detect hard disk it shows and all seems ok as far as the specs only the serial number does not show anything. At startup the drive access light flashes and I can here it. At start up it says pri master hard drive S.M.A.R.T. Command failed. I think this is the first roadblock problem why I can't boot. I changed it from auto in the advanced setup to disabled still no luck. What exactly is S.M.A.R.T.? That's a bios monitor for your HD. It has at least partially failed I then got a diagnostic bootable CD from Hitachi the hard drive maker and ran their DRIVE FITNESS TEST. It reported one or more corrupted sectors found. When I said fix the sector it failed. I then tried to erase the disk using their program and also got a failed. My question from above is how can a hard drive that I never had a problem with go bad because of the power going off but still appear to the computer as being there with drive lamp working? Is there code always on the hard drive that is not in its ROM that is screwed up and I will never be able to right that. Could I have done in some RAM (firmware setting) contained and set in its circuit board that I will never be able to fix? My last information in this novel I have posted here is that the Hitachi utility reported FAILURE CODE 0x75 DEFECTIVE DEVICE COMPONENT FAILED TECHNICAL RESULT CODE 7573DCF0. Again how can scan disk say no problem and the manufacturer's utility says failure with hardware? I have plugged and unplugged it four times already. If the CMOS battery was dead would if had not keep the time could this be the problem. No it did not get moved at all and I think I do hear the thing spin and the actuator move when I see the access lamp flash.. The scandisk did happen very fast. So if I boot with a floppy A what would be the command line to try the scan disk? I saw on bootdisk.com a floppy maker that had no ramdisk should I make it and try it and see what happens would that be easier for me to scandisk with out confusion? Could the firmware be screwed up? I never had a problem before the plug got pulled out at startup. Though you can run scandisk C: from the floppy it will only repair logical errors ***which could possibly make things worse*** scandisk will correct logical errors, it could possibly write any data you have into chk files. at any rate, if a drive registers a SMART error it *must* be replaced Your best chance to at least recover your data would be to slave the drive into another computer... laptop to IDE adaptors are only a few $$$ and avail at most any computer parts vendor |
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Can a hard drive be physically damaged due to power loss atstartup?
On Feb 28, 5:36 pm, "philo" wrote:
"DJW" wrote in message ... On Feb 28, 3:02 pm, "philo" wrote: "DJW" wrote in message ... I have a laptop whose battier is dead. During booting up the power cord became unplugged from the transformer. When I tried to reboot I got a message about a second partition, which I did not have on the hard drive. I assumed scandisk would run automatically and things would straighten out. In my early try at getting the hard drive to boot I also got a message that WINDOWS 98 HAS DECTECTED THAT DRIVE C DOES NOT CONTAIN A VALID FAT or FAT32 PARTITION. Here are some of the things I have tried and the messages I then got: When I tried to install windows 98SE from the CD I got. SET UP CANNOT INSTALL WINDOWS 98ON YOUR COMPUTER AN ERROR WAS DETECTED WHILE TRYING TO READ OR WRITE TO YOUR HARD DISK I tried at the a and then at the D and the C prompt FDISK I got one set in where it asks to enable large disk support (my HD is 6.5 GB) I tried yes first then no but both times it said ERROR READING FIXED DISK Tried A:\format c:/s still no luck. Winbook the laptop manufacturer had some instructions on reinstalling the OS. I tried with the CD in D:\win98 C: and get INVALID DRIVE SPECIFICATIONS. When D was in and booted from I no longer could get a C prompt to come up at all. Could get an A prompt then typed C: after it but got the same error message. Got to an A prompt an again and tried C:\windows\command\deltree.exe and got same error message as above. I booted with the floppy and tried all the above still no use. I got BAD COMMAND OR FILE NAME. Then tried C:\windows and got CDR101: not ready reading drive D abort retry. I put the CD in and hit retry and got BAD COMMAND OR FILE NAME. I am using a boot floppy that makes a Ramdisk and at start up it does say THE DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS WERE SUCCESSFULLY LOADED TO DRIVE C. Does this really mean that they were loaded in RAM and not on the C drive since it seems I can't read or write to it? I have run scandisk and it reports no problem with C drive. In the start up I see that my primary master IDE drive shows and in the blue screen BIOS under Auto detect hard disk it shows and all seems ok as far as the specs only the serial number does not show anything. At startup the drive access light flashes and I can here it. At start up it says pri master hard drive S.M.A.R.T. Command failed. I think this is the first roadblock problem why I can't boot. I changed it from auto in the advanced setup to disabled still no luck. What exactly is S.M.A.R.T.? That's a bios monitor for your HD. It has at least partially failed I then got a diagnostic bootable CD from Hitachi the hard drive maker and ran their DRIVE FITNESS TEST. It reported one or more corrupted sectors found. When I said fix the sector it failed. I then tried to erase the disk using their program and also got a failed. My question from above is how can a hard drive that I never had a problem with go bad because of the power going off but still appear to the computer as being there with drive lamp working? Is there code always on the hard drive that is not in its ROM that is screwed up and I will never be able to right that. Could I have done in some RAM (firmware setting) contained and set in its circuit board that I will never be able to fix? My last information in this novel I have posted here is that the Hitachi utility reported FAILURE CODE 0x75 DEFECTIVE DEVICE COMPONENT FAILED TECHNICAL RESULT CODE 7573DCF0. Again how can scan disk say no problem and the manufacturer's utility says failure with hardware? I have plugged and unplugged it four times already. If the CMOS battery was dead would if had not keep the time could this be the problem. No it did not get moved at all and I think I do hear the thing spin and the actuator move when I see the access lamp flash.. The scandisk did happen very fast. So if I boot with a floppy A what would be the command line to try the scan disk? I saw on bootdisk.com a floppy maker that had no ramdisk should I make it and try it and see what happens would that be easier for me to scandisk with out confusion? Could the firmware be screwed up? I never had a problem before the plug got pulled out at startup. Though you can run scandisk C: from the floppy it will only repair logical errors ***which could possibly make things worse*** scandisk will correct logical errors, it could possibly write any data you have into chk files. at any rate, if a drive registers a SMART error it *must* be replaced Your best chance to at least recover your data would be to slave the drive into another computer... laptop to IDE adaptors are only a few $$$ and avail at most any computer parts vendor Well if the drive is dead I still wonder why a working drive went to hell because of a power failure during booting. I tried the boot floppy with out a ram disk maker on it and now a scandisk of C returns errors that it cannot be done. As far as an adaptor for putting this in my desktop machine I think my money would be best spent getting a different drive from ebay. I am worried that could be a waste of money. What if the problem here is with the computer and the IDE bus in some way? What about this CMOS battery I heard of. What exactly does it do and could it being dead or weak cause a problem? I see nothing in my computers manual about it and have had all but the ram access panels open and never saw what I assume may be a button or camera style of battery. Does the average laptop have to have a major crake it open to get to it? |
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Can a hard drive be physically damaged due to power loss atstartup?
DJW wrote:
On Feb 28, 5:36 pm, "philo" wrote: "DJW" wrote in message ... On Feb 28, 3:02 pm, "philo" wrote: "DJW" wrote in message ... I have a laptop whose battier is dead. During booting up the power cord became unplugged from the transformer. When I tried to reboot I got a message about a second partition, which I did not have on the hard drive. I assumed scandisk would run automatically and things would straighten out. In my early try at getting the hard drive to boot I also got a message that WINDOWS 98 HAS DECTECTED THAT DRIVE C DOES NOT CONTAIN A VALID FAT or FAT32 PARTITION. Here are some of the things I have tried and the messages I then got: When I tried to install windows 98SE from the CD I got. SET UP CANNOT INSTALL WINDOWS 98ON YOUR COMPUTER AN ERROR WAS DETECTED WHILE TRYING TO READ OR WRITE TO YOUR HARD DISK I tried at the a and then at the D and the C prompt FDISK I got one set in where it asks to enable large disk support (my HD is 6.5 GB) I tried yes first then no but both times it said ERROR READING FIXED DISK Tried A:\format c:/s still no luck. Winbook the laptop manufacturer had some instructions on reinstalling the OS. I tried with the CD in D:\win98 C: and get INVALID DRIVE SPECIFICATIONS. When D was in and booted from I no longer could get a C prompt to come up at all. Could get an A prompt then typed C: after it but got the same error message. Got to an A prompt an again and tried C:\windows\command\deltree.exe and got same error message as above. I booted with the floppy and tried all the above still no use. I got BAD COMMAND OR FILE NAME. Then tried C:\windows and got CDR101: not ready reading drive D abort retry. I put the CD in and hit retry and got BAD COMMAND OR FILE NAME. I am using a boot floppy that makes a Ramdisk and at start up it does say THE DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS WERE SUCCESSFULLY LOADED TO DRIVE C. Does this really mean that they were loaded in RAM and not on the C drive since it seems I can't read or write to it? I have run scandisk and it reports no problem with C drive. In the start up I see that my primary master IDE drive shows and in the blue screen BIOS under Auto detect hard disk it shows and all seems ok as far as the specs only the serial number does not show anything. At startup the drive access light flashes and I can here it. At start up it says pri master hard drive S.M.A.R.T. Command failed. I think this is the first roadblock problem why I can't boot. I changed it from auto in the advanced setup to disabled still no luck. What exactly is S.M.A.R.T.? That's a bios monitor for your HD. It has at least partially failed I then got a diagnostic bootable CD from Hitachi the hard drive maker and ran their DRIVE FITNESS TEST. It reported one or more corrupted sectors found. When I said fix the sector it failed. I then tried to erase the disk using their program and also got a failed. My question from above is how can a hard drive that I never had a problem with go bad because of the power going off but still appear to the computer as being there with drive lamp working? Is there code always on the hard drive that is not in its ROM that is screwed up and I will never be able to right that. Could I have done in some RAM (firmware setting) contained and set in its circuit board that I will never be able to fix? My last information in this novel I have posted here is that the Hitachi utility reported FAILURE CODE 0x75 DEFECTIVE DEVICE COMPONENT FAILED TECHNICAL RESULT CODE 7573DCF0. Again how can scan disk say no problem and the manufacturer's utility says failure with hardware? I have plugged and unplugged it four times already. If the CMOS battery was dead would if had not keep the time could this be the problem. No it did not get moved at all and I think I do hear the thing spin and the actuator move when I see the access lamp flash.. The scandisk did happen very fast. So if I boot with a floppy A what would be the command line to try the scan disk? I saw on bootdisk.com a floppy maker that had no ramdisk should I make it and try it and see what happens would that be easier for me to scandisk with out confusion? Could the firmware be screwed up? I never had a problem before the plug got pulled out at startup. Though you can run scandisk C: from the floppy it will only repair logical errors ***which could possibly make things worse*** scandisk will correct logical errors, it could possibly write any data you have into chk files. at any rate, if a drive registers a SMART error it *must* be replaced Your best chance to at least recover your data would be to slave the drive into another computer... laptop to IDE adaptors are only a few $$$ and avail at most any computer parts vendor Well if the drive is dead I still wonder why a working drive went to hell because of a power failure during booting. I tried the boot floppy with out a ram disk maker on it and now a scandisk of C returns errors that it cannot be done. As far as an adaptor for putting this in my desktop machine I think my money would be best spent getting a different drive from ebay. I am worried that could be a waste of money. What if the problem here is with the computer and the IDE bus in some way? What about this CMOS battery I heard of. What exactly does it do and could it being dead or weak cause a problem? I see nothing in my computers manual about it and have had all but the ram access panels open and never saw what I assume may be a button or camera style of battery. Does the average laptop have to have a major crake it open to get to it? It should have one I think, all my laptops have one, but the newest is from '93 Try to figure out the brand of the hard disk and download the software for it. My dead 200 gig Maxtor disk was revived by a low level format and is still running after 8 years. Getting a hard disk out is no real problem, just be secure and work on a clean surface preferably with a rim so small stuff stays in sight. |
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Can a hard drive be physically damaged due to power loss at startup?
DJW wrote:
[] Well if the drive is dead I still wonder why a working drive went to hell because of a power failure during booting. I tried the boot As soon as the drive electronics get power, they start to spin up the disc (you can sometimes hear this). As soon as the disc is up to speed, most drive electronics have a self-preservation mechanism which, when the power is removed, use the physical energy in the rotating drive to help lift and park the heads. If it just received a small burst of power, it wouldn't have been able to store enough rotational energy to park safely, so a head crash seems likely to have happened. And/or, I suppose it's possible that the surges might have done for some part of the electronics. floppy with out a ram disk maker on it and now a scandisk of C returns errors that it cannot be done. As far as an adaptor for putting this Yes, without the RAM disc, letter C: will either be the hard disc (if the PC thinks there is one, even if it's not working), or will be unassigned. In either case, trying to access C: will result in some form of error. in my desktop machine I think my money would be best spent getting a Well, the adaptor leads really are cheap (if you don't let someone rip you off). different drive from ebay. I am worried that could be a waste of money. What if the problem here is with the computer and the IDE bus Well, that's why people have been suggesting you use an adaptor just to give the drive a final check in another computer. in some way? What about this CMOS battery I heard of. What exactly does it do and could it being dead or weak cause a problem? I see Can't say for laptops, but in desktops, it (a) keeps the clock going when the power is off, and (b) keeps CMOS settings - such as number of cylinders and heads the hard drive has, which order to use the graphics cards in, and so on. Yes, if the CMOS forgets this, the PC could try to access the drive with the wrong parameters, which wouldn't work (or worse, could corrupt the data on the drive, though I don't think physically damage it). However, the manufacturer's own self-booting software you've tried would I think try to access the IDE controller directly (assuming you told it which model of drive), so I don't think this _is_ the problem here. nothing in my computers manual about it and have had all but the ram access panels open and never saw what I assume may be a button or camera style of battery. Does the average laptop have to have a major crake it open to get to it? _Some_ motherboards these days use flash memory to hold the BIOS settings, though I think it's unlikely for a machine of Windows 98 vintage (assuming it is). Yes, even on desktop motherboards they're a "coin cell" - usually a CR2032 (which is quite a large diameter; they're becoming popular for very small remote controls too, like the ones you get with portable DVD players and the like, though they sometimes use the CR2025, which is about the same diameter but thinner). I don't know for the average laptop, I'm afraid, though I imagine they still do use such a cell - though possibly soldered in, which would be a pain. Do try the drive with an adaptor (note it will need to connect to both the IDE cable and the power cable), or in another laptop. Ask around to see if you can borrow the adaptor: most people who have them don't use them all the time. (I'd lend you mine, but I suspect we're on different continents, and you'd have to be near enough to collect it anyway - posting would cost more than the adaptor did.) Another option would be to try the suspect drive in some sort of USB setting: either a posh swanky USB case, or the cheap open power-supply-and-USB-to-IDE-cable thing. (I got my one of those for five pounds at a computer show a year or two ago. Obviously, make sure it has the laptop-type connector - the one I've got has both sorts on opposite sides of a plug.) I wouldn't really recommend this option, though, as if it still doesn't work, you're not so sure what it is that isn't working (unless you have another laptop drive handy to check the interface with). -- J. P. Gilliver | Tel. +44 1634 203298 Essex home for sale, £59,950: see http://www.soft255.demon.co.uk/home/ |
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