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I went to my buddy's house last night to install a new hard drive.. thought my old drive fried on me...
here is what happened before..
I would run my computer.. everything was fine.. the next day I went to turn it on and it came up.. "primary hard drive not found.. press f2 to reboot"
and i would get that message over and over and over..
So.. I take my old hard drive out.. put in the new one.. drop in a windows 98 disc, boot up and format the disc with 98.. everything is going good.. then we started putting in drivers... "driver installed, restart computer for changes to take effect..." ok so restart.. "primary hard drive not found.....(oh crap!) but then.. the system boots up.. and runs ok... hmm. wonder what that was all about.. install another driver.. restart.. primary hard drive not found... and it continues to be lost! brand new hard drive!!
ok... so we swap out the connector cables.. (whatever they are called) and we try to start the computer again... primary hard drive not found.....
over and over.. so.. my buddy fiddles around in the registry? or something.. and he tries to get the computer to find the hard drive.. but everything he tried failed....
dont know exactly what he did.. (im not too computer smart)
ok so then, just for giggles.. we slap the OLD hard drive back into the computer... primary hard drive not found.. uh.. uh.. wait.. ok I guess we found it... and now my old hard drive is working again... but for how long??? who know..
anyways.. anyone have any ideas other then demonic possesion about what is going on with my computer??
later
Sneak
here is what happened before..
I would run my computer.. everything was fine.. the next day I went to turn it on and it came up.. "primary hard drive not found.. press f2 to reboot"
and i would get that message over and over and over..
So.. I take my old hard drive out.. put in the new one.. drop in a windows 98 disc, boot up and format the disc with 98.. everything is going good.. then we started putting in drivers... "driver installed, restart computer for changes to take effect..." ok so restart.. "primary hard drive not found.....(oh crap!) but then.. the system boots up.. and runs ok... hmm. wonder what that was all about.. install another driver.. restart.. primary hard drive not found... and it continues to be lost! brand new hard drive!!
ok... so we swap out the connector cables.. (whatever they are called) and we try to start the computer again... primary hard drive not found.....
over and over.. so.. my buddy fiddles around in the registry? or something.. and he tries to get the computer to find the hard drive.. but everything he tried failed....
dont know exactly what he did.. (im not too computer smart)
ok so then, just for giggles.. we slap the OLD hard drive back into the computer... primary hard drive not found.. uh.. uh.. wait.. ok I guess we found it... and now my old hard drive is working again... but for how long??? who know..
anyways.. anyone have any ideas other then demonic possesion about what is going on with my computer??
later
Sneak