Fujitsu Siemens Scenic won't boot hard drive?

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kennylands84

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Hi
Strange one, has got me stumped. I've had a Scenic D for some time, worked fine, normally left switched off as second pc. It has EIDE HD controlled, not SATA. There's a 250gb Seagate main drive and a 500gb Western Digital slave, as well as floppy and DVD-RW on the IDE controller.
Couple of weeks ago, powered it up, passed bios, then before loading windows XP pro SP2, it complained that the HD wasn't readable. Tried reinstalling XP, which said it installed, then on final reboot, same thing, HD unreadable.
Luckily the 250gb Seagate was an upgrade, and I still had the Fujitsu original 60gb drive. Installed that, everything fine again.
Yesterday, turned the pc on, same thing, HD not readable. I certainly was when I installed the Fujitsu drive.
Any ideas ? Is it the controller on the motherboard that's flakey, cable ? Can you sugegst any tests ? I'm loath to chuck it away, because maybe it;s a really easy fix.
thanks for looking, and responding if you do.
Peter
 
Did you upgrade you a newer hard drive? Then you might have missed one step before you booted in your newer hard drive--fixing the MBR.

YOur MAster Boot Record is located in your hard drive, without it your computer won't know how to boot. All you have to is fix it. You might try fix it by using your recovery cd and going to the recovery console.

Set up your BIOS to boot from CD and put your Windows XP Recovery Disk in the tray. While in the BIOS (usually F2 or Delete during start up) find boot options. Make sure your cd or dvd drive is on the top of the list. Hit F1o to save the changes. Your computer will automatically restart. YOur computer should load the recovery cd.

Hit R to go into the recovery console.

Type the administrator password if that is asked for

type:

fixmbr

type:

y

type:

exit

Reboot your computer. There that should make your new hard drive work if your running form Windows XP. Fixing the MBR in Vista would be a different process.
 
The best thing I can say, is go purchase a USB adapter to SATA/IDE, the one that has its own power cord. They are fairly cheap about $10-$30. This way you can test the hard drives on a pc from another computer. Plug in the hard drive then restart computer. Hit F12 and boot from USB device. This should load the operating system from any hard drive you want to load. ( Again, test this from another pc)

If the hard drive boots up and Windows loads without those errors you are seeing, then something else is flakey like the IDE controller, or even a motherboard going bad.

I included a link in my sources as well as here ( http://www.buy.com/prod/usb-2-0-to-sata-ide-hard-drive-cable-adapter-converter/q/listingid/65026691/loc/101/213484248.html) for the adapter I am talking about.

I hope this helps!
 
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