[H-GEN] hard disk crashed. Help!

[Rick Phillips]

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> Hi All,
> 
> I carried my machine yesterday in the car and when I got to 
> work and turned it on and BOOT DISK FAILURE blah blah message 
> came up... It was working fine before.

Computers don't always like a "run in the sun".  The cable from the HDD
to the motherboard has probably loosened slightly.  Just remove the case
cover and try reseating the cables.  We strike this problem all the time 
with our customers who move their machines around a bit.
> 
> When i detected HDD from CMOS, sometimes doesn't see it, 
> sometimes sees it and when it detected the Head Cylinders, 
> Sector, then I can boot the machine but I ended up with GRUB prompt..
> 

Symptomatic of loose/slightly shifted cables - see above

Regards,

Rick Phillips.


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