Vexing Hard Drive Problem

[haxxorpoop]

Help on HD; model #: Fujitsu MPG3409AT "Made in Thailand"

Well, recently, one hard drive in my system failed out of the blue. Hard drives have just suddenly failed on me for no reason before, giving me BSoDs when I startup, and this was no different. Everytime, I would boot up Windows on my 2nd hard drive, and XP would always automatically fix it.
This time however, I unplugged my slave hard drive, and replaced it with the broken one (this broked hard drive had come off another computer). I booted up Windows on the master hard drive like I normally would, and it began fixing, puttering away at whatever it was doing. After it was done, I was prompted to login using the normal login screen. Thinking my hard drive was fixed, I rebooted my computer to see if anything different would happen. Bad idea. After restarting, during my computers POST, it gave me an error:

"Primary slave disk fail: Press F1 to Continue; DEL to enter setup"

This is problem had not occoured the first time I had booted up.
I hit F1 to see if Windows would reacat to the problem by fixing it, but this time, it just kept trying to boot up (with the standard Windows XP logo, and the sliding blue bar at the botton, but the blue bar would just keep moving, it never took me to the login screen). Putting my ear close to the HD, I listened to see if there was any activity going on inside the hard drive. Nothing. Zilch. Not a sound. Feeling discouraged, I un-connected the bad hard drive, reconnect my good hard drive, and booted up windows. Congratulations to me, it works! Wondering what went wrong, I shut down the computer, unplugged my good HD, replugged the bad HD, and booted of the good, primary master HD. This time, XP tried to fix it again, so after a long wait, I logged in, went into "My Computer" and tried to see if I could see in the bad HD. After I double clicked on "F:", it gave me this error:

"Error: Can not read from this I/O device"

Rebooting the machine AGAIN, I get that same, annoying message during POST:

"Primary slave disk fail: Press F1 to Continue; DEL to enter setup"

Shut down. Unplug bad HD, plug in good HD, come in here, hope you call can help me.

Specs:

Intel 1.8ghz (its the older non-northwoord one)
250W Power supply
512 pc133 ram
Asus P4B MoBo
ATI Radeon 7200
Win XP Pro
BIOS: Award v.6.0

The first time I plugged the bad HD in, the BIOS detected it properly. After XP tried to fix it, the BIOS could not see the HD under the HD section in boot devicies.

HELP!

[haxxorpoop]

Update: I can now see the files in the bad HD, however, when I try to run, copy, or rename the contents of the HD, it gives me the I/O device error message still...o.O

[darkheart]

Check this out

http://www.datarecovery.co.za/fujitsu_recovery.htm

[John Prophet]

frankly I would be looking at that power supply...if it 250 and not a typo, it could be causing issues....an underpowered supply has to work too hard and voltages can sag and/or cause "dirty" voltage or spikes....with your hardware listed, go ahead and invest in a little stronger supply. Maybe it has contributed to your problems.

JP

[haxxorpoop]

The HD didnt die on that machine though. That was just another machine I used to test it with, and it was also the machine that I had the specs for at the current time.