HARD DRIVE / DISK FAILURE CHART

No BIOS Yes
register
drive?

No Drive Yes CD / DVD No

seek & spin detected?
up?
Try swapping Yes
No Drive
power cables and SATA Yes cycles up,
test in other PC or drive?
Proceed to down?
external USB shell CD / DVD
before trashing
Yes 300 MB/s No Drive Failure Yes
Chart
SATA2?
Swap power lead,
try isolating on IDE
Check on-drive Data cable, check power
compatibility Yes management.
connection
jumper if old good?
150 MB/s controller.
No Mode, No
Set BIOS on old X-fer speed
No Yes
Master / Slave motherboard may correct?
jumper fail to detect
SATA when Yes
PATA hard
present drives require 80
conductor cable,
check mode
Check data in CMOS
cable seated
both ends, test
Set Yes Cables No cable.
cable select seated, No Does Yes
(C/S)? new? FDISK see
drive?
No Yes
Reseat IDE and
power cables.
Select Master / Slave or
Replace IDE cables
CS. CS requires 80
if in doubt. Isolate drive on Proceed to
conductor IDE cable
or custom 40 wire cable primary IDE controller Motherboard
If FDISK still doesnt Performance
see drive, the MBR Chart
may have been
Yes IDE trashed by virus.
No
ribbon cable
keyed?

Replace IDE cable. If

BIOS still doesnt register
drive, either motherboard Match pin 1 on
controller or drive is bad all connections
or incompatible.
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PTPB SIBU-MUKAH