Head Crash
#16
Posted 01 October 2011 - 01:17 PM
#17
Posted 01 October 2011 - 01:31 PM
#18
Posted 01 October 2011 - 02:54 PM
By taking out the hard drive
1. Take out the dead hard drive. and look at the connector that was connecting the hard drive to the PSU and the mother board
Okay now there is two types of Connectors
On the upper half of the image Is a white molox power Connector
And the grey Wire is called a IDE cable
Which a old type of Connectors that most old drives use
Okay on the bottem Half is What they a Sata Connectors
Which is like The ones above Kinda But smaller
A new standard in new computers.
2. Look at your hard drive and see what type you have
3.Buy the Hard drive you need
4.On the old Drive There should be a place by the Connectors
That has these little Things they are called "jumpers"
They set the hard drives Position of Master or slave
They look like this
5. With new drive look at the manual and find out what The jumper layout is on it
Once Done set it to master
6. Look at old drive See if you can find the Jumper settings on it There should be a diagram
On the drive itself
7.After that is all done put both drives in the computer
Make sure you enough power And Data wires Connectors
To Connect both drives once thats out of the way
8. Turn on computer Install a new Os on the new drive
After that Recover said data from other drive
To the new drive
Now thats what i know okay hope that can help a little
Thats a little guide i made for you
Edited by Ventus, 01 October 2011 - 03:09 PM.
#19
Posted 01 October 2011 - 06:07 PM
#20
Posted 01 October 2011 - 06:09 PM
#21
Posted 01 October 2011 - 06:30 PM
#22
Posted 01 October 2011 - 06:38 PM
Mm....Idk about that model at all
I can not find any thing on this model at all :-\
Yeah some should try to get a hold of some one With more computer exp
Sorry i can not help any more
#23
Posted 01 October 2011 - 08:12 PM
#24
Posted 01 October 2011 - 08:18 PM
Your best bet is Newegg or TigerDirect at this point. Here is a basic search result list for compatible drives on Newegg. (Don't get a Maxtor; that brand was discontinued years ago. Any listed Maxtor drives are refurbished and probably won't last very long.)
Anyway, your original problem was that some miscellaneous (but still serious) hardware failure occurred in your hard drive and was failing the diagnostic test performed at boot time (called a SMART test.)
If you can boot from a Linux LiveCD, you can find out definitively if the data on the disk is salvageable or not.
Edited by Bagel, 01 October 2011 - 08:22 PM.
#25
Posted 01 October 2011 - 08:34 PM
In other news, I'm glad to see you're still around Bagel. happy October
also theres nothing worth salvaging on the maxtor, it was all just for stuff like the OS and I can reinstall that easy.
Edited by King Aquamentus, 01 October 2011 - 08:39 PM.
#26
Posted 02 October 2011 - 11:36 AM
Western Digital brand
desktop PATA hard drive
"Caviar Blue"
320 gigs
status: installed.
this is the same exact kind of drive as my slave, brand and all, only this holds 70 more gigs. In other words, may slowness never plague me again.
I have to make one more trip to best buy: we have no canned air, with which to dust. that probably didnt cause the failure, but better to be safe
alright heres hoping im back in IRC soon.
#27
Posted 02 October 2011 - 11:42 AM
I wish you all the luck in the world
#28
Posted 02 October 2011 - 12:55 PM
#29
Posted 02 October 2011 - 01:03 PM
With it so far
I'll say installing windows isn't that hard as long as you know what you are doing
That is which i'm sure you know what your doing since you made it this far
#30
Posted 02 October 2011 - 01:08 PM
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