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Hi,
I have a 2.75 GB ram, P4 3.4 GHz, 2x250GB hard-drive, MSI NX7800GTX graphics PC which has been working great for the 5 months I've had it. For the past month though, I did experience som issues regarding my IDE drives, one DVD Dual-Layer burner and a regular DVD-ROM drive, when the drives vanished from my computer. They didn't show up on obvious places like "disk management" or "device manager". This was partially solved by uninstalling some burning software.
Anyways, my Dual layer DVD burner has been behaving slightly weird, being detected by the system like 40% of the time, having successful burns like 50% of the time and so on. So I uninstalled my new burning software (roxio media creator 8) and go back to my old software from my previous PC which I always was very satisfied with (Nero 5, good old!)
But as the installation was being performed, I was using my drive E: which is the DVD dual layer burner, the process froze. I therefore tried to restart the computer. It started with the desktop disappearing, BUT the Nero 5 installation window stayed put. And it went no further, froze I suppose. So the reboot button, having gotten increasingly more pushed during the past month, had to be pushed again. The system started up as normally, the first screen showing some info being confirmed, the usuall startup bla bla. But when it came to the part of "detecting IDE drives", everything froze. So I rebooted again, this time with nothing at ALL appearing on my monitor. Actually, the only thing that happened was a quite loud howling noise appearing from what seemed to be my hard drive. I've "opened" the computer to try and find the source of the beep (lasts for about 3-4 seconds, then a pause of about the same, and then its beeps again with the process repeating itself with, what seems, without an end) and come to the conclusion that it is in fact my hard drive. But again, a hard drive doesn't have speakers? So let's just say it's close to the hard drive if not the hard drive itself making the noise.
I guess it's a hard drive crash or something, and I guess I could just get a new one. But I do have some stuff saved up on the drive I would have liked to save. Any suggestions as to if this can be done? Can the drive be saved? I have no possibility of entering system setup or anything liked that, as the computer only howls when being swithced on.
Thanks for your time!
Bendik
Bang the head that doesn't bang!
Oh, btw, Metal up your ass!
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