They do make the motherboard…and then use the cheapest shit components possible…that is all!
I had about 10 western digital hard drives stop at the verifying drm pool data. The drives were fucked.
HP, Sony, IBM have pretty high standards for what hardware goes in to their machines. Acer, toshiba, newer dell, etc… will put whatever is cheapest that day into their machines.
well I booted up with the Vista DVD and ran checkdisk from the command prompt. It recognized the disk no prob, did it’s thing and returned zero corruption. The drive is recognized in the BIOS. I was able to run a system restore on the drive, but it didnt fix shit.
It is a western digital drive though. please tell me its not fried. I always assumed that the 500gb was twin 250’s, given the C and D drive config, but I am not acutely aware of the fact that it’s a single 500, with two partitions. All of my company data, bids, quickbooks, etc are on there. I was always adamant about backing things up and keeping a copy on the C and on the D drive. Lot of fucking good that did, eh?
You need to plug that drive into a working system and backup/recover all your data before proceeding.
Backups for a company should always be kept off-site, or at least on an external drive not always attached to the computer. I support a company who went to a bank and got a lockbox, and they swap out an external hard drive every friday. If something really bad happens at his shop, they only lose up to a week of work.
Can you plug that HD into another working computer to pull data off of it? Don’t try to boot to it, just use it as a “slave”. If the vista cd can access the drive, another OS ahould be able to.
I fucking hate Western Digital dives.
is there something special you have to do to get the OS to recognize it? cause i did try this in the good comp and it didnt seem to find it.
Are these IDE drives or SATA?
If they are IDE…
Did you make sure the drives were properly set as master and slave?
WD drives use different settings for “single” and “master”…unlike most others.
Or set both to cable select and use a “cable select” IDE cable.
Did the bios recognize them both?
Shouldn’t have to do anything special for the OS to see it…
Go into Disk Manager and see if it shows up there…