Old Quantum IDE Drive (85 meg)
The machine (286) was shut down properly. The next startup POST would not recognize a hard drive. I ran several checks and at power on the hard drive would spin up and after a few seconds would spin down at which point POST will chech for a harddrive and - zip. Any suggestions would certainly be appreciated.
Walter
Walter
Computers & Internet - Quantum
Answers & Comments
Hi walter, that usually means the first few sectors are bad(they are the important ones) or, the drive has a faulty motor/ is drawing too much current. There are two things to try. if you have a CDrom drive then boot a clean OS eg windows 98/XP from cdrom, or whatever os you were starting on that drive. you might then be able to access the hard drive from the command prompt or from the windows os on the cd in which case its just a few bad sectors that may be repairable by diags. Alternatively download burn and then boot a Hard Drive Diagnostics disk such as Hitachi(IBM) DFT. see it here the 2720K image https://www.hgst.com/support/hard-drive-support/downloads/legacy-downloads run a quick test and that will definitely indicate the true problem.