Samsung SV8004H HDD

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I have been given a 80GB drive, as above, and for a short while worked fine.
The drive is now not recognised at POST and also the master drive is not
being recognised as well, the Samsung drive being the slave. I have tried
the HDD diag util from samsung but even that wont recognise the drive. Is
this drive now defunct and why is the master not being recognised? This has
not happened before when I have had a drive fail.
 
LeeG said:
I have been given a 80GB drive, as above, and for a short while
worked fine. The drive is now not recognised at POST and also the
master drive is not being recognised as well, the Samsung drive being
the slave. I have tried the HDD diag util from samsung but even that
wont recognise the drive. Is this drive now defunct and why is the
master not being recognised? This has not happened before when I
have had a drive fail.
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Disconnect the Samsung. Does the master then work?
 
LeeG said:
Yes. Everything is detected and operates normally without the samsung
connected.
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LeeG:
We are assuming that you've properly connected/configured the device and
that its power connection & IDE data cable are non-defective.

It certainly sounds like you're dealing with a dead HDD. You could try
installing it in another machine as kind of a last-resort diagnostic but
from the way you've described the situation it sounds like the disk is
kaput. I'm sure you're aware that particular Samsung is fairly "old in the
tooth", yes?

Also, if you haven't done so already, try connecting the drive to another
IDE channel - try both the Master/Slave configurations. You could even try
(as a test) installing it as Primary Master (I'm assuming it does not
contain a bootable OS) and installing your boot drive as either a Slave on
the Primary IDE channel or as Master on the Secondary IDE channel. Just to
see what happens in those situations.

Anyway, it won't be the first time a non-defective completely functional
boot drive refuses to boot with a defective secondary HDD installed in the
machine. We've experienced this many times. It's not as unusual as you may
think. We've even come across similar types of non-booting situations where
there was no problem with the boot drive per se but where the defective
device was an optical drive or even a USB external HDD.
Anna
 
Thank you for your reply. I have tried the different combinations you have
suggested and it refuses to work. I will be refiling the drive in the bin I
think.
 
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