My homebuilt 2007 Intel Pentium E2180 system is having serious hard drive problems . This is the story ......
So , today , I opened my computer because one of the HDD's installed was not getting detected . I cleaned out the SATA port , and changed its port and started .
To my absolute horror and disbelief , no Hard drive was showing up (I had three at the time - an old WD 160GB SATA , a really old IDE seagate barracude ,and a Seagate SATA Laptop Drive (my boot drive) . )
All that showed up was , after
Memory Runs at Single Channel
was
IDE Channel 1 Master : None
and so on . So I entered the bios and also saw nothing there .
I then disassembled the PC and tried removing the drive I had just connected . But no dice ! But wait ! I see something !
The PC detected my old IDE drive , and got me to a 'grub rescue' prompt . I shut down again , and tried to connect the wires to a DVD , which is also detected .
And this brings me to the second problem . At startup , I hear a 'click' from the PC , as if the HDD is failing . Could that be true ?
Can anybody help me diagnose this problem ?