Failure Fixed Disk 0

[Cody]

Hey... one of my Cousins asked me to see if I could fix up an old P75 for him... but I get Failure Fixed Disk 0. all BIOS/CMOS settings are correct, jumpers are correct, and the IDE cables are correct... what could be wrong?

Edit: I booted with the SuSE Linux 6.4 disk, and it gives this message: hdc: <hard disk model here> and then Timeout: Error 0xd2

[This message has been edited by Cody (edited 07-25-2001).]

[daveleau]

Sounds liket he drive is dead. Do you have a way to test it?
Dave

[Cody]

I don't think so...

Is there anything else it could be?

[SPEEDO]

Is there a mfg. date on the drive ?

[Mr. Mojo Risin]

Not sure if I can help but I always get the "Failure Fixed Disk 1" message when I boot up my old Pent100. I posted on this problem about a year ago but never actually got the original cause of it. If I hit F1 right after the message it lets me continue booting up and eveything runs fine after that so I kinda just live with the problem since it must not matter too much.

I have no idea if this helps you but just in case anyone wants to use my post for reference, here it is:
http://www.sysopt.com/forum/Forum2/HTML/008431.html

The part on the "Failure Fixed Disk" message is near the bottom of the post

[Cody]

Well, I have tried the F1 to continue, and obviously, with no Floopy disks in the drive, it simply says No Operating SYstem Found. Also, when I bootup with Linux, it can't detect a hard drive either...

[Mr. NoOne]

Any kind of message that you get before booting the OS means there's something physically wrong with the drive.

If you at least know the brand of your drive go to http://www.geocities.com/inforeq2000...tml#HardDrives and look for the hard drive utility for your brand of disk. It will tell you if it's an error that can be fixed.

[Cody]

I tried the program, and it said "There were no hard disk drives detected".

I know it is hooked in properly, because BIOS recognizes it.

[Cody]

SPEEDO: I don't see one (I COULD look, but...)

It is a P75, so it must be pretty darned old

[SPEEDO]

Do you have another Hard Drive that you could stick in there just to see what happens.

[Cody]

I have a 30GB here, but it was rather expensive (since it is 7200RPM) and I would rather not take the chance of having that be screwed up too. Just so you know, whenever something would be theoretically trying to access the harddrive (right after BIOS, when TOMSRTBT tries to access hda) There is a loud click pause pause click pause pause click pause pause (each pause pause being about 1/2 a second) for about one minute.

[daveleau]

I am still pretty sure that the hard drive is dead. It is clicking, giving you Fixed Disk errors, intermittnetly showing up. sounds like a dead one. Putting your 30GB woudl test it, but the system may haveproblems reading it since that P75 can probably only see 8GB of it (BIOS limitation). So, even testing the 30GB in it would not give conclusive evidence. Trying the small P75's hard drive in your system that holds the 30GB would do no hard and you could see if it is accessible.

Dave

[Mr. NoOne]

I agree...

Those clicks sound like the disk is dead...