Re: Can a hard drive be physically damaged due to power loss at startup time?
- From: DJW <ddwr@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 08:40:51 -0800 (PST)
On Mar 3, 12:19 pm, Flasherly <gjerr...@xxxxxx> wrote:
On Feb 29, 12:16 pm, DJW <d...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have a laptop whose main battier is dead. During booting up the
power cord became unplugged from the transformer. When I tried to
reboot I got a message about a second partition, which I did not have
on the hard drive. I assumed scandisk would run automatically and
things would straighten out. In my early try at getting the hard drive
to boot I also got a message that WINDOWS 98 HAS DECTECTED THAT DRIVE
C DOES NOT CONTAIN A VALID FAT or FAT32 PARTITION.
Here are some of the things I have tried and the messages I then got:
When I tried to install windows 98SE from the CD I got. SET UP CANNOT
INSTALL WINDOWS 98ON YOUR COMPUTER AN ERROR WAS DETECTED WHILE TRYING
TO READ OR WRITE TO YOUR HARD DISK
I tried at the a and then at the D and the C prompt FDISK I got one
set in where it asks to enable large disk support (my HD is 6.5 GB) I
tried yes first then no but both times it said ERROR READING FIXED
DISK Tried A:\>format c:/s still no luck.
Winbook the laptop manufacturer had some instructions on reinstalling
the OS. I tried with the CD in D:\win98> C: and get INVALID DRIVE
SPECIFICATIONS
Was running Ramdisk and getting no problem but then someone told me
that was scanning the ramdisk and so I booted from a floppy without a
reamdisk creator on it and tried scandisk and got a message worded
something like could not don it.
In the start up I see that my primary master IDE drive shows and in
the blue screen BIOS under Auto detect hard disk it shows and all
seems ok as far as the specs only the serial number does not show
anything. At startup the drive access light flashes and I can here it
spin and the actuator sound as it blinks.
At start up it says pri master hard drive S.M.A.R.T. Command failed. I
think this is the first roadblock problem why I can't boot. I changed
it from auto in the advanced setup to disabled still no luck.
I then got a diagnostic bootable CD from Hitachi the hard drive maker
and ran their DRIVE FITNESS TEST. It reported one or more corrupted
sectors found. When I said fix the sector it failed. I then tried to
erase the disk using their program and also got a failed.
My question from above is how can a hard drive that I never had a
problem with go bad because of the power going off but still appear to
the computer as being there with drive lamp working? Is there code
always on the hard drive that is not in its ROM that is screwed up and
I will never be able to right that. Could I have done in some RAM
(firmware setting) contained and set in its circuit board that I will
never be able to fix? My last information in this novel I have posted
here is that the Hitachi utility reported FAILURE CODE 0x75 DEFECTIVE
DEVICE COMPONENT FAILED TECHNICAL RESULT CODE 7573DCF0. Could this be
a dead CMOS battier? Or worse could this be the computer as in the IDE
controller. Could the power loss at start up changed some of the ROM
settings on the mother board?
I was and trying to install windows 98SE.
I've an old IBM Thinkpad with IBM tech routines for low-level
formating the HD. Would take hours, but got back the drive. Real
picky about what sort of memory stratagem went into the upper 384 over
640 to access EMS, and would blow off the HD in a bad way. A low-
level is a last ditch attempt to recover a drive;- subsequent and
continued sector errors is not a good thing.
What are you talking about above? Sounds like geek Greek to me? I just
got another letter back from Hitachi they say the error code I gave
them about the bad drive does not exactly tell them what is wrong but
they say definitely an internal part has failed.
OK I have learned something here, that a loss of power during booting
can cause physical damage to the hard drives. Does this apply to all
IDE hard drive as in an external in a USB box? And also a desktop's
internal drives. Is this something that either the master or slave can
have happen to it or was it something specific to a small profile type
laptop drive only?
I am an old time Mac user and mostly dealt with SCSI drives. Now I
can't ever say for sure that I ever had a power outage with a SCSI
drive during boot up. Does anyone out there know if damage can happen
to a SCSI during boot up due to loss of power? And does a Mac have the
same possible vulnerability to power loss during boot up now because
for a number of years they are using IDE drive also?
Should I post my last two questions to a Mac group or are there some
multi platform people here like me?
.
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