I replaced a old hard drive in afriends computer. the old one was just making clicking noises.I installed win 98 and got it all up and running perfectly.I then installed system suite 4 and its update to do a defrag it locked at 8% done when i rebooted i had a message "no operating system found" i put a '98 boot disk in and did a fdisk and found that there was "No fixed drive" message.When i opened up the case i restarted and listened to the drive and all i could hear was a clicking sound again coming from the hard drive.I checked the bios and it said there was no primary hard drive .Any ideas as to what this could be?

Thanks

sounds like a bad one, i'd take it back to where ever you got it at.

I had a 20gb WD that was sent back because of this very same problem (sounds like anyway)

had the same problem, and used the same solution, only to have it puke again...
ran the hd checking utility, and found out the hd was cashed...

yep, return it for replacement!



wase4711

Any chance this was an ASUS mobo?

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Two weeks ago, I have to return a Maxtor 60gigs because my bios warn me about a disk who will died shortly :o

I run the Maxtor diagnostic and the drive was not fixable :angry:

I think the new drives are cheaper than ever :lol:

talking about the problem with a friend we came to the conclusion that possible the motherboard was putting too much power to the drive and "frying it" i say this because the drive was absolutely boiling hot to touch much hotter than i would expect it to be. Is there some type of voltage regulator on the motherboard that could fail? and cause this problem?

Thanks so far for the answers

Cheers