Need Help with HD error

[sbondy]

Hi There,

I have a MOBO that just died on our main SOHO machine. Mission critical database and email stuff on there, gotta get it going ASAP. I'm frankensteining (is that a word?) some other machines to get a 'new' working machine together. Here's my situation:

With the 'new' machine intact, I try to start up with the office machine HD, and after POST I get "Hard Drive read error, press CTRL+ALT+DEL to reboot". It won't boot off the office hard drive. When I use a different hard drive from my studio computer, it boots up fine. When I boot up with the studio hard drive as master, and the office hard drive as slave, it works just fine again, meaning, I can boot up all the way and browse, read and write to the office hard drive installed as slave.

Is there something I can do to make this office HD bootable? Or should I go through the hassle of reinstalling all the software on the current bootable drive?

Thanks,

Steve

[whubbard]

It sounds like the office HDD is corrupt. If i were you I would back up all the 'Mission critical' information and re-format. If that helps, great your set. If not...the HDD is dead.