Re: Is my harddrive dead, what should I do?
need4greed wrote:
I have a WD1600JB. Yesterday my computer crashed and when I rebooted,
everything became really slow. So I powered off (shut down don't work).
And now when I turn on the computer, it stays at the "detecting IDE"
for almost 30 secs. Then finally it would recognize the HD and proceed
to boot up XP. However, normally it takes me 30 secs to boot, now it
takes several mins. Even after window is booted, everything is slow.
The mouse would work fine, but when I press the 'Start' button, it
takes minutes for anything to happen, essentially the system is
useless. Any suggestion?
Go to Western Digital's web site and get a copy of their disk checking
software.
I suspect some of your BIOS settings have gone amiss; what you describe
doesn't necessarily sound like a hard drive failure to me (although it
could be).
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