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I was on my computer yesterday doing a little Photoshop work and my
battery back up started beeping like there had been a power outage, but
there wasn't one. So I powered down my computer power cycled the
battery back up and waited a few minutes and everything seemed to be
fine. So I restarted the computer and all of a sudden my primary drive
was gone and the system started treating my second hard drive as the C
drive. Now I'm wondering if my primary drive has actually failed or if
something else might be going on. I just find it strange that the drive
wasn't giving me any problems at all and then just simply died on
restart. I haven't had a chance to test anything out yet but I wanted
to check in here to see if anyone has had similar problems in the
past... or to see if any one had any suggestions or ideas about what
might be wrong.
 
Matt said:
I was on my computer yesterday doing a little Photoshop work and my
battery back up started beeping like there had been a power outage, but
there wasn't one. So I powered down my computer power cycled the
battery back up and waited a few minutes and everything seemed to be
fine. So I restarted the computer and all of a sudden my primary drive
was gone and the system started treating my second hard drive as the C
drive. Now I'm wondering if my primary drive has actually failed or if
something else might be going on. I just find it strange that the drive
wasn't giving me any problems at all and then just simply died on
restart. I haven't had a chance to test anything out yet but I wanted
to check in here to see if anyone has had similar problems in the
past... or to see if any one had any suggestions or ideas about what
might be wrong.
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Sounds like you had a power surge which was powerful enough to knock out a
hard drive. Do you have surge protection on your battery backup
nit? -Dave
 
Sounds like you had a power surge which was powerful enough to knock
out a
hard drive. Do you have surge protection on your battery backup
nit? -Dave
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I do have surge protection but I really don't think that was the case.
I hooked it up again just now and every time I try to power up the
computer when it's plugged into the battery back up it trips the alarm.
But if I plug it directly into a wall outlet it boots to the secondary
hard drive. I can hook other items up the battery back up and turn them
on without any problems but the computer trips it every time.
 
Matt said:
I do have surge protection but I really don't think that was the case.
I hooked it up again just now and every time I try to power up the
computer when it's plugged into the battery back up it trips the alarm.
But if I plug it directly into a wall outlet it boots to the secondary
hard drive. I can hook other items up the battery back up and turn them
on without any problems but the computer trips it every time.
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OK . . . when a power supply fails, it CAN damage connected drives. To me,
it kind of sounds like something is shorting out in your power supply. A
UPS unit will often give an alarm if something connected to it is drawing
too much current. I would advise you to replace your power supply ASAP.
OH, and try like heck to get all your data files backed up to CDR or
something soon. -Dave
 
Have you checked the BIOS? Sometimes it gets corrupted when these things
happen, it may be that it knocked out the primary drive and just needs to be
reset.
 
Dave C. said:
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OK . . . when a power supply fails, it CAN damage connected drives. To me,
it kind of sounds like something is shorting out in your power supply. A
UPS unit will often give an alarm if something connected to it is drawing
too much current. I would advise you to replace your power supply ASAP.
OH, and try like heck to get all your data files backed up to CDR or
something soon. -Dave
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Thanks guys... I guess I'll try replacing the power supply first and
then I'll try to recover the data and check the BIOS.
 
Matt said:
Thanks guys... I guess I'll try replacing the power supply first and
then I'll try to recover the data and check the BIOS.
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Well I replaced the power supply and massaged the BIOS and everything is
back to normal. Thanks again!!
 
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