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qwerty
Posts:135
 | | 09/08/2007 10:54 PM |
 Alert | | So, today my computer froze and when I went to restart it I got the message no one likes to see. Primary disk not found. So, I powered off the computer (unplugged and all) and let it sit for a while. Came back later and still same message. So I tried to boot from a CD (Norton Ghost). The CD boot fine but wasn't much I could do with it. So I put in the Windows CD next and then all of the sudden, it wouldn't boot from a CD. I tried several more CDs including the same Norton disk I had used earlier. No luck. I then removed all the unneccessary PCI cards as well as the hard drives and reseeded the RAM. Still won't boot from a CD. Does this sound like my motherboard is going bad? I going to plugin the hard drives into my other PC tomorrow to see if any of them are bad, but that still shouldn't keep it from booting from a CD properly. That's why I'm wondering if it's the motherboard. ARGH! | | | |
| | celltech
Posts:0
| | 09/09/2007 9:57 AM |
Alert | | I had the same problem. It turned out to be a bad hard drive and motherboard. I built a new one from the ground up from Fry's and never looked back. I have since learned my lesson and bought a 250GB extertal HD so I don't lose my data again. | | | |
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| | qwerty
Posts:135
| | 09/09/2007 11:57 AM |
Alert | | Yeah, luckily I do have an external with a backup or my wife would have flipped...:-). I just plugged in the main drive into another PC and I can access it fine...so it doesn't look like it's the hard drive...unless it's just the MBR that's messed up. | | | |
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| | qwerty
Posts:135
| | 09/09/2007 3:00 PM |
Alert | | Well...I ended up resetting the BIOS through the motherboard jumper and was finally able to boot to the Windows recovery CD. I then did a "fixmbr" command...low and behold, it booted to windows just fine with all the data still there. Weird. | | | |
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