My Computer Hard Disk
Apr. 10th, 2006 06:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crunchSo.. after the hours of panic that I had yesterday and last night with my computer I did a whole lot more tests swapping the hard disk into another machine and it worked perfectly..
After a bit more hunting I had a closer look at the ATA cable connecting the two hard disks and the mainboard. Its one of the new ATA 133 cables with the finer wires thats been standard for hard disks for a fair while now.
This particular cable was all scrunched up and jammed into position. Not good. I decided that it was probably damaged so I brought the cable into work today to remind me to do some shopping for a new one.
When I sat down and had a close look at it I noticed that the PIN 1 cable (thats the red wire... bus power wire) was bare to the world for everybody to see. There was about 10 mm of copper showing on it. Thats less than optimal.
Went to Dick Smiths and brought one of the new round IDE cables. thats the one with the plasic sheething over it that is becoming more common. To allow better air flow and the like on the computer. ($12 which wasnt too bad.. )
Plugged it in this evning.. booted up no problems and it seems fine.
*sighs with relief* I was worried I had lost all that data. I cant even claim it was porn.. Nope.. I lost all THAT last hard disk failure.. :P Kidding. It was more important than porn. It was the disk with all my installed games on it with all THEIR associated save games.
After a bit more hunting I had a closer look at the ATA cable connecting the two hard disks and the mainboard. Its one of the new ATA 133 cables with the finer wires thats been standard for hard disks for a fair while now.
This particular cable was all scrunched up and jammed into position. Not good. I decided that it was probably damaged so I brought the cable into work today to remind me to do some shopping for a new one.
When I sat down and had a close look at it I noticed that the PIN 1 cable (thats the red wire... bus power wire) was bare to the world for everybody to see. There was about 10 mm of copper showing on it. Thats less than optimal.
Went to Dick Smiths and brought one of the new round IDE cables. thats the one with the plasic sheething over it that is becoming more common. To allow better air flow and the like on the computer. ($12 which wasnt too bad.. )
Plugged it in this evning.. booted up no problems and it seems fine.
*sighs with relief* I was worried I had lost all that data. I cant even claim it was porn.. Nope.. I lost all THAT last hard disk failure.. :P Kidding. It was more important than porn. It was the disk with all my installed games on it with all THEIR associated save games.
