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MuckMan

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4. December 2005 @ 14:16

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I have a Western Digital 250GB HD and controller card. My computer is a Dell Dimensin 4550 from 2003. I've had this for 2yrs now and everything has been fine until I guess sometime last night. I was out and my computer was shutdown however we suffered a power outage at my house. When I came home to day and booted up my computer I got this message:

ultra100TX2 BIOS is not installed because there are no drives attatched

I have tried using different cables, placing the controller card in a different pci slot but I always get that message. Does anyone know what the problem is? Is it possible to save my hard drive because I had a lot of stuff on it?

I tried to connect the hard drive straight to my motherboard and bypass the controller card. When I did this the Dell Bios recognized the HD when I went into bios, however it then gave me a disk read error and said I had to reboot.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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ddp

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4. December 2005 @ 17:30

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how many hd's do you have in the computer?

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Steve83

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4. December 2005 @ 19:55

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Have you checked WD's site for a free diagnostic utility? Maxtor offers one.

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MuckMan

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4. December 2005 @ 23:58

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Its the only HD I have. Used the one that came with the dell for my ps2. I used Western Digitals dianostic tool and it kept coming up with an error everytime I tried to run it. I'm pretty sure my HD is shot.

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SypherTek

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5. December 2005 @ 00:12

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What actually happens when you try to boot up the PC with this HD?
Have you tried booting from another HD and using this one as a slave to see what happens?

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pcrepair

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5. December 2005 @ 00:32

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run this tool

you need to make a floppy and then boot from it
could be the power surge that came with the outage hurt your harddrive

you can get the data off it if you use this tool

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