Frozen on Detecting IDE Drives.

[Deleted account 211028001]

win 7 64 bit 2 gig ram
athlon processor 3700+

just hangs there
no warning working fine this am
can hear HD click at first then stops

black screen goes through ide with dvd's chaanels 0,1,2,3,master & slave and the stops at detecting IDE drives

does not respond to f9, f12 del on boot up either

if HD failure can I recover ( did a back up on external HD weeek or so ago)

any ideas

 

[Popell]

What is the hdd manuf and model?
I had an instance with a Seagate Barracuda 7200, which bricked itself, a search of google revealed a way using an old nokia data cable to 'speak' at basic level to the hdd and reset the firmware to allow it to work again.
Recovered all the data and the hd functioned in another 'browser pc' untill it went fubar again a ayear later and once again gave the symptoms you describe.
Google is your friend...

HTH

 

[repomanbe]

black screen goes through ide with dvd's chaanels 0,1,2,3,master & slave and the stops at detecting IDE drives

I'd love to help but could you translate the quoted sentence please?

Is this a Desktop or a laptop? What make & model? How long was it functioning correctly?
What's happening at POST (Power On Self Test), anything unusual or different from normal?
You say F9, F12 and 'Del' does not work, does the keyboard work at all? Is it a type that requires additional drivers, or wireless or bluetooth?

As you say you're running Windows 7 64 bit this implies modern hardware so do you actually have any internal or external IDE drives attached?
It may be a failed disk but it also may be that one of your devices is interfering with the boot process.
Have you changed your hardware configuration in any way since the last successful boot?
Are there any DVDs or CDs in the drives at boot time?

You could try unplugging all external devices and see if the Desktop/Laptop boots any further. If it does reboot start again and keep adding the external devices one by one till it stops.

 

[Deleted account 211028001]

I'd love to help but could you translate the quoted sentence please?

Is this a Desktop or a laptop? What make & model? How long was it functioning correctly?
What's happening at POST (Power On Self Test), anything unusual or different from normal?
You say F9, F12 and 'Del' does not work, does the keyboard work at all? Is it a type that requires additional drivers, or wireless or bluetooth?

As you say you're running Windows 7 64 bit this implies modern hardware so do you actually have any internal or external IDE drives attached?
It may be a failed disk but it also may be that one of your devices is interfering with the boot process.
Have you changed your hardware configuration in any way since the last successful boot?
Are there any DVDs or CDs in the drives at boot time?

You could try unplugging all external devices and see if the Desktop/Laptop boots any further. If it does reboot start again and keep adding the external devices one by one till it stops.

Did what you said unplugged everything plus one of the DVD drives

Now boots to windows screen and everything works except now I have a blck window appearing

C:\windows\system32\cmd.exe

In the dialog it stated cannot find path but now has disappeared

Have re pllugged in The DVD same happened all is working but have not added any other periferal kit yet a printer web camera & speakers


Will keep you posted

The only new thing I have done was to install drivers on Xmas day for a sky caddie range finder (golf)