My D: is gone!!!!

kopiosatu SG

It died on my yesterday while i was playing Championship Manager 03/04...

I tried to save the game but it couldn't be saved!!!

When i opened my D: folder, they kept prompting me "D: not formatted, do you want to format?"

I clicked "no"...

I just left the game, and ran a virus scan... no virus.

Shut down the PC and this morning... D: is gone...

There goes my MP3s, Stand up comedy videos and pictures!!!! My programs like Photoshop, Kazaa Lite, Nero CD etc. are all there!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARG!!!

Its been a while since I've sourced for a new PC... now to start doing research and budget planning...

In any case, is there anyone who knows how to find my D Confused ????

FireIce SG

jie ai shun bian...............

i've been thru this ordeal twice.....i know how u feel......

>pat pat<

kopiosatu SG

its not because of virus eh???

i've had that drive for... hmmmmmmmmmm 4-5 years...

Nelstar SG

The most common possibility:

Death of IDE Cable/Loose IDE Cable.

Mobo failure.

kopiosatu SG

ok, the cable is connected so it probably died...

mobo failure? then that means my pc should have died rite?

FireIce SG

my drive was into its 5th year before it coughed and died

it happened out of the blue and w/o a warning......
during boot-up, it totally cannot read the drive......

it damaged my mumboard somemore....and indirectly spoil my other HDD.....

Nelstar SG

The hard disk platter does not die easily unless under impact, shock, power surge.

Nelstar SG

Sometimes mobo failure occurs due to fat error.

FAT error is common even for ntsc32.

kopiosatu SG

shock... impact... power surge... hmmmmm

non that i know of that has happened...

well, maybe if i change the IDE cable it'll be ok... but what's with the pop up asking me about formatting my drive?

Nelstar SG

NEVER format.

It will screw your HDD more.

It is very likely that you've a faulty ide cable.

FireIce SG

i will pray for ur D-cup........i mean.......D drive

kopiosatu SG

sian, have to go pc shop to buy...

ok, are all IDE cables standardised??? or i gotta tell them its for my secondary HD?

kopiosatu SG

Hahahahahha~ sekali it can be fixed! Then you realised your previous HD deaths were just playing possum!!!

FireIce SG

mine were goner cases......verified oredi

it's a blessing bcos i got a damn good reason to invest in a laptop!!!
from then on, it's byebye PC, hello notebook!

ehhehehehehe......

neber gonna look back........

Nelstar SG

The standards are as follow.

IDE100, IDE133.. it depends on how many pins... bring your cable over for them

It's standard as long as you fixed the jumpers correctly for your hdd.

Harddisk drives do not die as easily as ABC unless the read/write head is badly aligned.

kopiosatu SG

I'm still gonna get a desktop...

been thinking of getting one, but the one i have now WAS running fine... that's why I didn't think of getting a new one.

Now... well, one drive is still working... except i can't play games anymore... NO SPACE...

at least it gives me time to save up and get a fast PC... what's more is that nothing new is really coming up nowadays, so it won't get obsolete so fast!

Now... any volunteers to help me think what parts i should get to assemble a new PC?

kopiosatu SG

I don't think my HDD should die that easily!!!

At least die when i've gotten a new PC!!! So i can transfer the files there!

I could still run my game... until last night... so i hope its the cable... now it can't even detect anything.

Let's see, i just bring my HDD and cable down to the shop eh?

Nelstar SG

Flat-panel CRT displays
512 mb ram hyundai DDR first party
GEForce 4
p4 1.8mhz and higher (processor speed is secondary nowadays)
120gb hdd x 2
DVD-RW (only for duplication and future use [reminder: use dvd player to watch dvds or risk damaging dvds.])
CD-RW (used mainly for all discs...)

anfuni SG

My condolences.... =P

kopiosatu SG

Flat-panel CRT displays <<<<< Have the accesories liao, so 100% of any budget will go to the CPU

512 mb ram hyundai DDR first party <<<<< HYUNDAI?

GEForce 4 <<<<< Is this the latest one??? Let's hope it can handle Doom 3, hahahahah!

p4 1.8mhz and higher (processor speed is secondary nowadays) <<<< Secondary? Then what is primary???

120gb hdd x 2 <<<< That's ALOT of memory... looks like I gotta do lots of partitioning. If i can this drive up and running again, is there an easy way to transfer the files to the new PC?

DVD-RW (only for duplication and future use [reminder: use dvd player to watch dvds or risk damaging dvds.]) <<<< RW Only ah... If wanna play gotta get another drive? hmmmm i think i won't get... got 3 DVD players over here

CD-RW (used mainly for all discs...) <<<<<< This one confirm must have, if not how to play CHAMPIONSHIP MANAGER??!?!!?!?