- Jul 23, 2001
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The hard drive in my brother's computer started acting funny...he was getting sporadic reboots and then system files were missing upon reboot. Finally he kept getting a BSOD and could never recover from it. I replaced the drive and got his computer running again.
I put the troubelsome hard drive into a USB enclosure thinking I could run chkdsk on it and possibly pull his data off of it. When I plug the drive in to a computer running Windows XP and turn the drive on, it whirrs for about 10 seconds, and the computer then reboots itself.
I'm looking for a way to diagnose this drive but when I can't even access it when it is plugged in, how the heck can I do this?
Any help would be greatly appreciated as this is something I have never encountered before.
EDIT:::::
The drive is a Hitachi Deskstar 500 GB Model HDS725050KLA360 Mfg'd in June 2005
It does not have any jumpers so I can't set it to slave.
I put the troubelsome hard drive into a USB enclosure thinking I could run chkdsk on it and possibly pull his data off of it. When I plug the drive in to a computer running Windows XP and turn the drive on, it whirrs for about 10 seconds, and the computer then reboots itself.
I'm looking for a way to diagnose this drive but when I can't even access it when it is plugged in, how the heck can I do this?
Any help would be greatly appreciated as this is something I have never encountered before.
EDIT:::::
The drive is a Hitachi Deskstar 500 GB Model HDS725050KLA360 Mfg'd in June 2005
It does not have any jumpers so I can't set it to slave.