My WD HD doesn't show up in bios?

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Xel Lagaffe

Hi group,
after one of my disks went on extended holiday, the ide0 primary HD (a WDC
80Gb) isn't showing up in the bios. Well, if I wait about 1 minute or so,
it finally decides to activate and start up, and showing it self in the bios
as well. But I cant set this drive to boot in the boot options of my mobo
(a msi 875p neo). Is it safe to say that this disk, also will fail soon?
When I finally get started, and windows is finished loading, everything is
a-ok.
The Bios "thing" took about 1-3 sec before this, now it takes as I said
about a minute. anyone got some comments/hints as what I should do?

Rgds,

Xel
 
If everything is wired and connected OK, check the cables etc. I
recommend getting all the info off that disk ASAP. Been here
myself...in my case it was an IBM disk and it failed about 2 weeks
after it started playing up, just like yours is.

regards
Graham
 
Xel said:
Hi group,
after one of my disks went on extended holiday, the ide0 primary HD (a WDC
80Gb) isn't showing up in the bios. Well, if I wait about 1 minute or so,
it finally decides to activate and start up, and showing it self in the bios
as well. But I cant set this drive to boot in the boot options of my mobo
(a msi 875p neo). Is it safe to say that this disk, also will fail soon?
When I finally get started, and windows is finished loading, everything is
a-ok.
The Bios "thing" took about 1-3 sec before this, now it takes as I said
about a minute. anyone got some comments/hints as what I should do?

Rgds,

Xel
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I assume, both of these drives were on the same cable, as master and slave? If
so, you need to change the jumper setting on the Western Digital drive. Your
Western Digital drive has separate jumper settings for Master with Slave, and
Master with no slave(single drive). Since the Western Digital drive is now
alone on the cable, change the jumper to the Single drive position.
 
Thanks Graham.
aye, the disk that's been declared dead is in fact a IBM Deskstar 40Gb. It
all started a few days ago when I first heard some strange noises comming
from disk. It sounded like the powercable was removed, then inserted again;
you know one can hear the spindown/spinup sound. Then this disk stated
using a very long time to display the content of one partition (i.e. G),
none of the other partitions on this same disk used that long time.. This
is in fact the third IBM disk thats gone haywire in under 2 years of use.
No more IBM for me! I have to send this disk to a "recovery" company to get
out the info I want.. :( Thats very strange though, as the disk spins up,
and everything looks a-ok - only it don't.

Anyway; thanks for replaying Graham.

Rgds,

Xel Lagaffe
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Wow! Steven here saves my day! Thank you, so very much!
I owe you one.. I truly appreciate you're answer here Steven.

Respect & admiration (and if I ever could afford it), a kick ass vacation.
Thank you!

Xel Lagaffe
 
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