Is it possible for a 4 1/2 year old hard drive's platter to stick (not
spin)and cause the bios to report back hard drive failure? This problem I
am having  seems to  occur if I let the system sit for several days. I
power it up and get a hard drive failure message. Also I notice the hard
drive's red LED is stuck on solid. If I get into the bios and do an
autodetect the drive is found with the correct parameters, but when I save
and exit the system still reboots with hard drive error message.

The only way I have been able to get the drive readable again is to power
down and tap or jar the whole case of the computer, then power back up and
the drive works fine, no errors when using scan disk. If I use it everyday
no problem. This problem has just started  recently with the computer.
Nothing was added to the hardware nor was the computer moved.

The system is a pentium 75, with a western digital 1.2 gbyte hard drive,
setup using a disk manager .I will recheck all the internal connections
just to be sure it is not that. Any ideas?

Thanks;  Ken

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