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**leadmoffer** · 07-25-2010, 01:26 AM

I went to my sisters this morning and put the original HD back in. While doing that I triple checked all the connections and cables again. It booted up without any error message what so ever so now I'm fairly sure it's the HD ribbon cable that's faulty. What else could cause an intermittent problem like that? I do recall when it booted up to the error message the boot sequence didn't how any drives as having anything in it. This time the HD was listed.

I also fired up the Trend Micro scan but didn't stick around to see the results. I'll talk to my sister about it later just for shits and giggles.

Guy, unless you heaved real hard on the cable I doubt that was the issue.. But hey anything is possible..

I would suspect if anything the problem will reappear in a day or a few days if its what I think it might be.. Then you have issues that need hard drive software to find and see if the drive is still good or can be fixed..

You still have not said what brand it is so can help further.. Some drives have more issues then others. Example Seagates are known for bad sectors, as for Western Digitals were bad in some series for controllers and just dieing.. Fujitsu had their issues as well..

07-25-2010, 01:26 AM	#20
leadmoffer Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 479 Senior Member	I went to my sisters this morning and put the original HD back in. While doing that I triple checked all the connections and cables again. It booted up without any error message what so ever so now I'm fairly sure it's the HD ribbon cable that's faulty. What else could cause an intermittent problem like that? I do recall when it booted up to the error message the boot sequence didn't how any drives as having anything in it. This time the HD was listed. I also fired up the Trend Micro scan but didn't stick around to see the results. I'll talk to my sister about it later just for shits and giggles. Guy, unless you heaved real hard on the cable I doubt that was the issue.. But hey anything is possible.. I would suspect if anything the problem will reappear in a day or a few days if its what I think it might be.. Then you have issues that need hard drive software to find and see if the drive is still good or can be fixed.. You still have not said what brand it is so can help further.. Some drives have more issues then others. Example Seagates are known for bad sectors, as for Western Digitals were bad in some series for controllers and just dieing.. Fujitsu had their issues as well..
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