HDD autodetect; Ghost backup

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Hello all

Help needed urgently!

Problem: My PC (P3, 1.4GHz, XP Home) won't recover after hibernating - it appears not to power up and autodetect the primary master drive, so no OS loads. Other drives autodetect OK. After resetting several times it eventually fires up, but now I have it running permanently on just to be safe. The question is - is this a likely to be a hardware or a software failure

Related question: I have Norton Ghost running and I store the Ghost image on a slave HDD. If I reformat the primary HDD to remove an unwanted logical partition can I simply restore the image to get back to where I am now? If not, what can I do

Thanks for any help offered
Geoff
 
If the any of the other devices on are the same ide cable then it would be
doubtful that you have an ide controller problem, more than likely a drive
going south. If the bios doesn't see it then the OS won't either so you can
rule out software. Reformatting won't remove a logical partition, it will
just format it. If your talking about wiping out what you had before,
restoring a Ghosted image will take care of that. Keep in mind once again,
if the bios cannot detect the drive, replacing the OS on it won't help a
bit.

Geoff said:
Hello all,

Help needed urgently!

Problem: My PC (P3, 1.4GHz, XP Home) won't recover after hibernating - it
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appears not to power up and autodetect the primary master drive, so no OS
loads. Other drives autodetect OK. After resetting several times it
eventually fires up, but now I have it running permanently on just to be
safe. The question is - is this a likely to be a hardware or a software
failure?
Related question: I have Norton Ghost running and I store the Ghost image
Click to expand...
on a slave HDD. If I reformat the primary HDD to remove an unwanted logical
partition can I simply restore the image to get back to where I am now? If
not, what can I do?
 
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