Anytime you hear spin, then no spin it could be a number of things, but
usually always a sign that the drive is going, going, gone...  Your data may
still be there, but may need data recovery specialists to remount the
platters into another controller assembly, etc$$$$.

-----Original Message-----
From: Charles T. Rauscher
<[log in to unmask]>
Date: Friday, September 04, 1998 10:13 AM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Hard drive problem


>The systems is a 486-33mhz system running Win95. There are 2 hard
>drives on the system, 1st-325 mb drive, 2nd-4.1gb maxtor. The last
>time I used the system it worked fine. On the next startup I received
>the message detailed below. I can hear the hard drive start to spin,
>then silence. The diagnostics I found in the CMOS would only work if
>I allowed the system to delete my data, which I declined. I used a
>floppy boot disk to start the system. That's when I tried scandisk &
>chkdsk on the "C:" drive. They wouldn't work..no access. That's where
>I am..
>
>Thanks, Charly.
>- - - - - - - - - - - - - - Original Message - - - - - - - - - - - -
>- -
>On Friday, September 4, 1998 at 11:50:30 am EDT,
>"Eric Outten" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>Charles:
>>We need to know much more about your system hardware.  It might be
>as
>>simple as a blown configuration.  Tell all.  Include your
>>troubleshooting to this point.
>>Eric
>>
>>Charles T. Rauscher wrote:
>>My assumption is the disk controller is gone.
>>--
>>Eric R. Outten 773-978-3478 "typito ergo sum"
>>[log in to unmask] - Oh! Electronic Solutions, Inc.
>>8835 S. Clyde Avenue - Chicago, IL 60617-2904

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