In my computer I have 3 Hard Drives (all internal) My main hard drive has XP on and is partitioned with Ubuntu on it also. On another Hard drive I have in my computer I have vista on it and that is also partitioned with Mac OSX (so my computer is a Quad-boot if you like) And the third Hard Drive is a 500GB just sitting there storing lots of things and is nearly full.
Anyway one morning, turned on my computer was trying to boot into Vista like normal and it cam eup with an error saying it cannot find the vista Start-up drivers. I though Vista must have a problem and be corrupt, putting in the install DVD should work fine. I tried to boot into Mac and that also would'nt boot. So I booted into XP and clicked on My Computer and it only showed 1 hard drive the one I was using. It previously always showed 3. So in the end 2 of my 3 Hard Drives have stopped working. Im not to bothered about the Vista/Mac one but my 500GB I am, they still both spin but just wont be recognized can anyone help?
2007-06-28 23:53:45 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
Try hooking the drives up individually...especially the Vista/Mac drive. Make the jumper on that drive as 'master' and allow it to be the only drive. Does it boot? If so, it's not bad. Also, try removing the Mac/Vista drive and see if XP can read the 500GB drive. In other words, use 'process of elimination' to find out which drive is actually the problem.
2007-06-29 00:09:31 · answer #1 · answered by TECH 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
your drives are gone...uninstall but do not erase the drives...then turn on your pc and have the pc find the new hardware....then set the defaults like master and slave, etc.
you should be good to go then...if not that problem...then I was wrrrrrr ooooo nnnn ggg..but I hardly am.
good luck.
2007-06-28 23:59:55 · answer #2 · answered by Oldmansea 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It sounds like a motherboard problem, but I'm no expert. Just a thought.
2007-06-28 23:57:40 · answer #3 · answered by cindy h 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
why on earth having 3 operating systems???? all 3 are fighting each other for control. choose one and work with it.
2007-06-28 23:59:04 · answer #4 · answered by oldguy 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋