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Hey Guys,
I could just do with some clarification from someone before I recommend any further advice.
Ok, Here goes.
Ok, repairing a computer and in my opinion the hard drive has failed, as it just gives error upon error.
When i first looked at it, I had the error which is current, so i re-formatted, and reinstalled windows XP.
After doing so I kept it for a couple of days, just to make sure there were no continuing errors. I ran all of pcpitstops tests, and ran a couple of "stress Tests" on it to make sure it could cope.
My friend collected it, and all was fine.
TWO WEEKS LATER
Now I got a phonce call last night to say that when using it and attempting to open a program an error would occur, now my friend sdescription of this error is as follows:
"Error 1327 F:\"
ok, so my instant reaction was that the second hard drive they have, had failed. Because this was about 10Pm, I was unable to assisst in thematter directly, and recommended that she just shuts it down.
I am now currently at hers and it wont even boot. It just shows many different errors on boot, and i enabled S.M.A.R.T mode to detect if anything was wrong with it (error from this mentioned later on in post)
The first is the classic "NTLDR IS MISSING" error, ok fair enough, pretty simple to resolve normally.
So I restart it to go to bios to change the boot device to floppy, fro when i fix the NTLDR error, the next error was from the S.M.A.R.T detection system in the bios, and it was saying that failure is imminent.
Ok, restarted it, and was going to just see what else it would throw up. Surely enough it did. I let it boot, and it gave no errors. However all over the screen were the RGB colors (eg red, blue, green, purple etc) and in each one foriegn lettering ( é á ó í ú) and that's all that was displayed.
Ok, so I'm now thinking that the hard drives have ad sectors or something, and that they are now no good. i just wanted some confirmation or advice or something before I take any more actions. I have found a 160GB HDD from dabs.com for £37.90 (I think about $70) which i didn't think was bad.
System specs are as follows:
Main Board
Brand/Model
Type Desktop
Serial Number Not available
BIOS Phoenix Technologies, LTD 6.00 PG 06/29/2004
System Board SiS-730
Processor information
Nominal Clock Speed 952 MHz
Measured Clock Speed 952 MHz
External Clock Speed 100 MHz
CPU Load 2%
Speed Rating 2625 (101% of 11 similar)
Memory
512MB Ram 2x 256
Video Card / graphics adapter
Onboard, SIS-300
Hard Drives
2 x 20GB Seagate IDE hard drives
C:Operating system and documents (partitioned to Z
Frograms and apps.
Running Windows Xp Prow all current updates.
Anything else you want to know, feel free to post here, PM me, Im me whatever i'll reply.
Would appreciate any help, advice, comments, or anything you can offer, Im all ears!
Kind Regards
Anthony
I could just do with some clarification from someone before I recommend any further advice.
Ok, Here goes.
Ok, repairing a computer and in my opinion the hard drive has failed, as it just gives error upon error.
When i first looked at it, I had the error which is current, so i re-formatted, and reinstalled windows XP.
After doing so I kept it for a couple of days, just to make sure there were no continuing errors. I ran all of pcpitstops tests, and ran a couple of "stress Tests" on it to make sure it could cope.
My friend collected it, and all was fine.
TWO WEEKS LATER
Now I got a phonce call last night to say that when using it and attempting to open a program an error would occur, now my friend sdescription of this error is as follows:
"Error 1327 F:\"
ok, so my instant reaction was that the second hard drive they have, had failed. Because this was about 10Pm, I was unable to assisst in thematter directly, and recommended that she just shuts it down.
I am now currently at hers and it wont even boot. It just shows many different errors on boot, and i enabled S.M.A.R.T mode to detect if anything was wrong with it (error from this mentioned later on in post)
The first is the classic "NTLDR IS MISSING" error, ok fair enough, pretty simple to resolve normally.
So I restart it to go to bios to change the boot device to floppy, fro when i fix the NTLDR error, the next error was from the S.M.A.R.T detection system in the bios, and it was saying that failure is imminent.
Ok, restarted it, and was going to just see what else it would throw up. Surely enough it did. I let it boot, and it gave no errors. However all over the screen were the RGB colors (eg red, blue, green, purple etc) and in each one foriegn lettering ( é á ó í ú) and that's all that was displayed.
Ok, so I'm now thinking that the hard drives have ad sectors or something, and that they are now no good. i just wanted some confirmation or advice or something before I take any more actions. I have found a 160GB HDD from dabs.com for £37.90 (I think about $70) which i didn't think was bad.
System specs are as follows:
Main Board
Brand/Model
Type Desktop
Serial Number Not available
BIOS Phoenix Technologies, LTD 6.00 PG 06/29/2004
System Board SiS-730
Processor information
Nominal Clock Speed 952 MHz
Measured Clock Speed 952 MHz
External Clock Speed 100 MHz
CPU Load 2%
Speed Rating 2625 (101% of 11 similar)
Memory
512MB Ram 2x 256
Video Card / graphics adapter
Onboard, SIS-300
Hard Drives
2 x 20GB Seagate IDE hard drives
C:Operating system and documents (partitioned to Z
F
rograms and apps.Running Windows Xp Prow all current updates.
Anything else you want to know, feel free to post here, PM me, Im me whatever i'll reply.
Would appreciate any help, advice, comments, or anything you can offer, Im all ears!
Kind Regards
Anthony
