Hi everyone,
As christmas is coming near, my PC started playing up with me. It was working fine untill today.
I created image of a disc using nero this afternoon and then strange thing hapened. My dvd drive disappear from the my computer. so I decided to reboot. now when I reboot my system I had my usb hard drive plugged in the system and it didnt boot so fair enough all I had to do is unplug my usb drive and reboot. but strange thing happend which never happened with my PC. do you know when PC boots up you can see lots of information on the screen. all of the information were in strange colour. ever alternate letter was in orange and the next letters to orange were in white colour. and system didnt boot.
So I powered off the PC and started again and it said boot disc failure. I can't even detect it from the bios. I tried going to bios and tried to detect it. but I can only detect dvd drive as secondary master. but for primary drive nothing
My PC configuration is as follows:
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Item: AMD Athlon XP2600 333mhz 512 L2 Cache Barton Retail Boxed Inc
Heatsin & fan 3 year warranty-
Qty: 1
Item: Maxtor 6Y080M0 Plus 9 80Gb Serial ATA 7200rpm - OEM
Qty: 1
Item: Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe SKTA NVNorce2ST ATX 8xAGP Giga LAN, SATA,
Firewire, 6 channel Audio, USB2
Dual chan. DDR +WiFi slot (up to DDR400)
Qty: 1
Item: Corsair (VS512MB400) 512 DDR400 PC3200 STD Value Select Memory
Module
Qty: 1
Item: Sony OEM 3.5 Floppy Drive
Qty: 1
Item: Leadtek Winfast A340-T128 FX5200 128mb DDR Full Direct X 9, TV
out and cables
Qty: 1
Item: I-Cute 0314TL Black Atx Case With Side Window
Qty: 1
Item: Ebuyer Value 8cm Case Fan With Blue LED's
Qty: 1
Item: Sony DWD22A 16x Dual Layer DVD R/RW - OEM Black
Qty: 1
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I would appreciate if anyone could tell me what to do. i'm not bothered about buying a new hard drive. but I'm more concerned about the data as I dont want to loose any of my file. I'm going to take my hard drive to my friend's computer and see if we can detect the drive on his pc.
Your help is much appreciated.
Cheers guys
As christmas is coming near, my PC started playing up with me. It was working fine untill today.
I created image of a disc using nero this afternoon and then strange thing hapened. My dvd drive disappear from the my computer. so I decided to reboot. now when I reboot my system I had my usb hard drive plugged in the system and it didnt boot so fair enough all I had to do is unplug my usb drive and reboot. but strange thing happend which never happened with my PC. do you know when PC boots up you can see lots of information on the screen. all of the information were in strange colour. ever alternate letter was in orange and the next letters to orange were in white colour. and system didnt boot.
So I powered off the PC and started again and it said boot disc failure. I can't even detect it from the bios. I tried going to bios and tried to detect it. but I can only detect dvd drive as secondary master. but for primary drive nothing
My PC configuration is as follows:
=======================================================
Item: AMD Athlon XP2600 333mhz 512 L2 Cache Barton Retail Boxed Inc
Heatsin & fan 3 year warranty-
Qty: 1
Item: Maxtor 6Y080M0 Plus 9 80Gb Serial ATA 7200rpm - OEM
Qty: 1
Item: Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe SKTA NVNorce2ST ATX 8xAGP Giga LAN, SATA,
Firewire, 6 channel Audio, USB2
Dual chan. DDR +WiFi slot (up to DDR400)
Qty: 1
Item: Corsair (VS512MB400) 512 DDR400 PC3200 STD Value Select Memory
Module
Qty: 1
Item: Sony OEM 3.5 Floppy Drive
Qty: 1
Item: Leadtek Winfast A340-T128 FX5200 128mb DDR Full Direct X 9, TV
out and cables
Qty: 1
Item: I-Cute 0314TL Black Atx Case With Side Window
Qty: 1
Item: Ebuyer Value 8cm Case Fan With Blue LED's
Qty: 1
Item: Sony DWD22A 16x Dual Layer DVD R/RW - OEM Black
Qty: 1
=======================================================
I would appreciate if anyone could tell me what to do. i'm not bothered about buying a new hard drive. but I'm more concerned about the data as I dont want to loose any of my file. I'm going to take my hard drive to my friend's computer and see if we can detect the drive on his pc.
Your help is much appreciated.
Cheers guys