Your fixing a desktop pc which does not boot - hangs at BIOS screen. It looked like and sounded like the HD, so I fire up SpinRite and it finds sectors that it can't read. I let it run all night. In the morning, I take a look at the progress, and it's only at 7%. WTF? All the sectors it corrected were shown as recovered. Hum...
So I stop it and decide to restore an old 1 year image I had on another spare HD. My backup program could not see the HD, even though it was shown in the BIOS bootup screen. Hum...
The root cause? BAD CABLE!
Don't you just hate it when...
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Re: Don't you just hate it when...
Yeah. I always try replacing the cable and spraying the connectors with contact cleaner before trying to refresh a drive. On rare occasions it's even possible to corrupt the data by trying to run Spinrite on it with a bad cable.
Admittedly this is rare with SATA cables, because since they're serial they usually either work or they don't. This used to be a much bigger problem with the old IDE cables.
Admittedly this is rare with SATA cables, because since they're serial they usually either work or they don't. This used to be a much bigger problem with the old IDE cables.
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Re: Don't you just hate it when...
Aww, man!! I would have been PISSED OFF for sure. Glad you found the problem though.