Hi, I was recently formatting my drive, and somehow it remains corrupted, I guess. When the bios is booting, it always halts right after it detects the hard drive. From there on, it's frozen. I can't boot from CD, or anything else, unless I unplug the hard drive. What's wrong with it, and why doesn't it show up anywhere? I've been trying to boot linux (with the hard drive unplugged, plugging it in after linux boots), and it still doesn't detect the drive. Is there any program that actually tries and fixes the drive, but actually searches for the drive without going through the BIOS? I appreciate your help in advance, and thanks a lot!
Well it sounds as though it's mostly dead. If buying a new drive may be hard on the cash flow try these dumb questions first.... Is it plugged in as far as power? Have you tried different power plugs? Have you gone into the bios before the computer attempts to boot from the drive and checked the drive settings. Is the drive is spinning? If it is try the mfg site for diag tools. Oh and plugging it in after the system boots is a bad thing to do unless it is designed for it. Also did you completely wipe the drive before putting linux on? If a windows boot partition is on it and it's trying to boot to linux.... well these two don't play well together. good luck.
