dying hard drive?

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Keith Watson

hello,
i have a PC with 2 hard drives. i'm not sure if my
problem is with both drives but it's at least with the
system drive. lately i've had trouble with the drives
powering down when the computer goes to sleep and not
coming back to life when the computer wakes up. also, if
i turn the computer off because of this problem, with
increasing regularity, the drives don't spin up when
turning the computer on. the bios shows no drives at all
when initializing.

another post i saw seemed to be relevant and the answer
was that the drive is dying and needs to be replaced.
but the problem was only when starting up, not when
already started. i have set power options in all
profiles on this pc so that the drives are never supposed
to power down, yet they continue to do so.

so far the problem has been intermittent, and there are 2
profiles that get used regularly on the pc. i just
noticed that there was a settings difference between
them: one had the display welcome screen upon wake box
checked, one didn't. when i unchecked that box in the
one profile, the next time i tried to wake it up, the
drives wouldn't spin. does this mean anything?

thanks for your help.

keith
 
Changing profile settings or any settings in XP has nothing to do with your
disk drives spinning up. No drives in the bios means not drives for the OS
to see, it's as simple as that. You either have a ide controller problem or
one of your drives could be affecting the ide bus. Make sure your important
data is backed up.
 
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