{"id":459,"date":"2021-09-03T20:01:03","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T20:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/windows-7-new-hard-drive-disk-read-errornot-detected-3606-html"},"modified":"2021-09-03T20:01:03","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T20:01:03","slug":"windows-7-new-hard-drive-disk-read-errornot-detected-3606-html","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/windows-7\/new-hard-drive-disk-read-errornot-detected\/3606.html","title":{"rendered":"New hard drive – disk read error\/not detected"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I had an old master HDD which started to click, which meant that it was faulty, so I replaced it with a new one.<\/p>\n

I installed Win7 64bit on a new 500gb WD HDD. Worked fine once, then it started giving me the ‘BOOTMGR IS MISSING’ error so I had to install Windows again.<\/p>\n

I did this today and things were working fine, I was installing programmes, rebooting etc, and then all of a sudden on one reboot after having installed Microsoft Office, nothing drastic, BIOS gave me the ‘Disk read error occurred’ message.<\/p>\n

I tried reseating the cables, this did nothing.<\/p>\n

I ran Win7 repair – this found one problem and apparently fixed it (something to do with the boot configuration being corrupt), but then on boot it gave me an error that I can’t remember now but I remember the code 0x00000000 (not sure how many zeros). <\/p>\n

Thereafter it was just not being detected in bootup at all, under IDE drives. When trying the Win7 repair again, it couldn’t even find an OS to repair. The HDD is spinning, I can feel it vibrating – but not being seen at all in BIOS wherever I put it; I tried the hard disk in another position on the motherboard by taking it out from inside the PC and slotting it into a caddy drive on another IDE slot. This made no difference.<\/p>\n

I tried connecting my old dodgy clicking HDD where the new HDD was originally seated – this booted up fine (using this HDD now to make this post, although it is clicking of course).<\/p>\n

Any advice on what to try next would be greatly appreciated.<\/p>\n

Thanks <\/p>\n<\/td>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":50},"question-category":[],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-459","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=459"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}