hdd symptoms
Is HDD failing or is something else wrong?
Of 2 identical Maxtor 100GB HDD’s installed in my HP8390 Win98SE PC, the slave drive seems to be problematic. On a power-on boot, all works well — the PC and its drives fire up normally as expected. On subsequent restart reboots though, BIOS messages list a garbled slave HDD disk label and the system hangs. When this happens, I typically then power-off the system for 5 minutes and then perform a power-on boot. The system starts normally and runs without problem until the next restart reboot. Other than this one annoying symptom, I see no other evidence of a potential disk failure (e.g. no error messages or I/O faults). I suspect I have a problem with either the slave HDD or the system power supply. How can I isolate and identify what’s causing my HDD to be so flaky?
check your cables, make sure they are not loose. This means both the data cable and the power supply cable that goes to the drive see if you have a free power connector and swap them out. Most power supplies have several power connectors. If you got and extra power supply try swapping them also try another data cable that is the wide cable going to the main board from the drive watch which way the red mark on the cable is installed the red mark is for pin 1.
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