ARGHHHHHHH

[KitchenWitch]

The good news is I got the Wii hooked up to the network. The bad news is the hard drive on our desktop computer died.

[Solon]

1. Explain how it "died" did it just stop being recognized on the computer?

did the drive crash? Do you have another means to boot the computer? Like a LiveCD or USB Pen drive?

[KitchenWitch]

2. When we boot up, it is not spinning

and the computer gives us a "No Hard Drive" message.

[Solon]

3. Hmm, two things, one, open up the computer and make sure that the power connector...

from the power supply is connected to the hard drive. Switch connectors if you have to, there are usually spares in the computer all ready to be hooked up. The second thing to check is the IDE or SATA connection to the motherboard. If its not those, then its probably the actual circuitry for power conversion on the hard drive itself. All your data is still there, you just can't get to it.

[KitchenWitch]

4. I did check connections

I will try the other power supply connector (I have one left) tomorrow. Happy freaking new year.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. My dear KitchenWitch!

:scared: :scared: :scared:

Hope you can figure out what happened, and fix it...

:hug:

[KitchenWitch]

6. I am thinking the hard drive is not just nearly dead

It is most sincerely dead.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. Aren't those lines from a movie???

"Wizard of Oz" maybe?

Did you just watch it?

:rofl:

[KitchenWitch]

8. No but "Wizard of Oz" is my favorite movie of all time

And I often find myself quoting it.

[Broken_Hero]

9. Sorry to hear that

to bad I don't live near you, I got like 5 80 gig harddrives, that I'm not using, and they are all relatively...new.