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Rick:
--- Quote from: Shane on April 01, 2015, 05:11:12 pm ---I was kind of hoping it was the bios lol
Ok so normally I would say it is the hard drive that needs replaced. But when you said that a 2nd drive in the system does the same thing, and it was a 2nd drive and not a 2nd partition.
Because of that it makes me think it is the motherboard that is dropping the sata ports.
So now we just need to find out once and for all which it is, and we can do that by doing a simple test, if you are able to.
2 ways we can do this,
1. Take both drives out of the laptop and hook them into a tower or another system and run the chkdsk on them there.
If they fail out at the same point then we know it is bad drives (Since we are connected to a different mother board).
If chkdsk works just fine and doesnt drop out then we know the drives are good and the problem is the motherboard in the laptop.
2. If you dont have another system to hook the drives to then if you have a 3rd and different hard drive you can remove the 2nd drive in the system and put in the 3rd drive and do a chkdsk to it. But of course you need to be sure the 3rd drive is good.
The first test would be best to do if you have another system you can use. :wink:
Shane
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Motherboard 6 years old?
maybe need a new processor and FAN!
Nomad:
Hi Shane
I could use another laptop with Windows XP O. S., which has USB ports, for test 1 as you hint, if it will do.
As I never took off a hard disk from a computer, please tell me how the connection can be made and what care should be taken in the whole operation.
Thanks
Shane:
Not going to be easy to do with another laptop.
The laptop drives are a sata connection from what you said. So normally I would take the drive out and plug it into a spare sata port in a tower, and hooke the power end to it as well and then boot into the tower like normal, with the drive being a secondary drive. Then run chkdsk on it and see how it does.
The trick is to have the system be a secondary drive because you cant put it into another laptop and have it be the main drive as the windows install has drivers for the other motherboard and the system will just blue screen.
Does the other laptop have a 2nd drive bay like your current laptop? most laptops only have 1 slot for a hard drive, the older models did have 2 on some models.
Shane
Nomad:
Shane
I was not getting it. It seems to me that the laptop I mentioned is IDE, single drive, so, no way.
But, tell me, couldn't I try to take the D: hard drive off my HP and connect it to an USB port of the other laptop and do a CHKDSK? Would it work with an adapter?
Shane:
If you have a sata to usb adapter then yes that will work. I have one myself that is for laptop drives only and it works well. I got it off of newegg.com :-)
Shane
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