First post, by Intel486dx33
I think my hard drive is dying.
I was able to boot into it and run scandisk with no problems but when I tried to run defrag it would not start the program but just locked up.
Do you think my data on the hard drive maybe corrupt ?
Sometimes it boots and sometimes it hangs on boot up and sometimes I get a “HD controller” error.
But I don’t think there is anything wrong with the controller and I already changed out the IDE cable.
The drive is SLOW to spin up too.
I don’t have anything else hooked up to this IDE channel but the hard drive.
And I have the floppy hooked up to the floppy channel.
The floppy drive works fine.
The controller detects the harddrive fine.
But sometimes I get the “HD controller” error on boot up.
I think it is the harddrive that is failing and not the controller.
Has anyone seen this before ?
Hard drive is a “Conner IDE 524mb.”.
Maybe I need to change the jumpers?
Does anyone have the manual for this drive ?