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Article #3041Re: Help on hardDisk - System disk not found
From: Rod Speed
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 20:12
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 20:12
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Francis Goh <hogsicnarf@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:3c418ed2$1@news.starhub.net.sg... > I have a Quantum Fireball CR 10GB hardDisk on ASUS P2BF-103 mainboard. I always thought it was dangerous calling a hard drive Fireball. Its just living up to its name. > Recently, when I load my PC. It says "System disk not found" > (and a cracking sound on the harddisk). The bios able to > detect it but when I use fdisk, it says "Disk not found". > Anyone knows is there any lower level of detecting the harddisk > (I suspect the Master Boot Drive is corrupted) Its much more likely that the drive is so sick that only the bios can see it or that sometimes its visible and sometimes its not, in time. > or is there a utility from Quantum for this kinda problems? Quantum is now owned by Maxtor, their utes are on the maxtor site.
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