Shane
Tue Aug 17 13:05:50 CDT 2004
I presume by *the whole thing* you mean the tower, CD drive etc etc. Some
people confuse this with the Hard Drive itself, which is a mere component. I
can see you having paid for the computer to be fixed but not the hard drive
(regardless of whether they're practically repairable anyway, hard drives
are cheap enough these days that buying a new one seems the greater
economy).
However, maybe your computer is so old that getting something more recent
would be the wiser course. I can't really advise you as I don't know what
you've got. Or what you had repaired and why. If the rest of the computer is
in good enough condition and powerful enough for today's practical
purposes - specifically, for your requirements - with a little care it's
easy to replace a hard drive and a good, new, fast and fairly large one
(with a 2 - 3 year warranty) can be had for, say £50 UK or $75 US.
As to whether the drive might work on another computer - it's vaguely
possible, but unlikely, that, if it won't work in your present computer,
it's something else that's at fault. And from here I can't really help with
that. If the drive is not detected in your computer and it's not the drive
at fault, it'll need to come out to be tested to verify that that's the
case.
Shane
"Louise" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7c2c01c48478$b7d666c0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> Tried auto-detect, but it will only find the CD Drive.
> Maybe you could help me - assuming that the drive is
> wrecked, should I give up and chuck the whole thing out
> (I've already paid once for it to be repaired, and can't
> afford to again) or is there something to be salvaged from
> it. Might the drive work on another computer? Might the
> computer work with another drive?
> It's all a bit of a mystery to me...
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>Before panicking, get into the BIOS menu and select *Auto
> detect hard
>>drives* (or words to that effect). You probably get into
> your BIOS by
>>pressing DEL repeatedly from more or less the moment the
> computer is powered
>>up. Without altering any settings, look through the main
> menu for the
>>*Autodetect* option. If not there, go through the sub
> menus. The keys to use
>>to navigate and select in the BIOS will be clearly
> indicated, so take your
>>time. When you've done it, press the F key for *Save and
> Exit*.
>>
>>But until *auto-detect hard drives* fails to fix the
> problem, you should
>>work on the assumption that your hard drive is probably
> quite healthy and is
>>simply not being detected.
>>
>>Shane
>>
>>
>>"Louise" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message
>>news:735501c483b8$a1f2edd0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
>>> Please can anyone offer me some help?
>>> My computer recently crashed (froze completely whilst on
>>> the internet) and when I forced it to shut down it
>>> restarted asking me to insert a boot disk. I put in a
>>> system backup floppy disk, but it won't recognise my
> hard
>>> drive. Bios works, but only finds the floppy/cd drives
>>> (whose names have been swapped - the floppy is now B:
> and
>>> the CD is C:). When I try to use a system recovery
> disk,
>>> it says "There is no hard drive", then Ghost says there
> is
>>> an 0x0c Sharing Violation, and it won't go any further.
>>> I've tried virus scans in DOS, but they can't find
>>> anything. Please help, I've had virus problems before,
>>> but never one that wouldn't let me recover. Is this a
>>> fatal virus?
>>> I'm running windows ME on a Samsung Laptop, or I was.
>>> Thank you very much
>>
>>
>>.
>>