• Giving POST Errors (e.g. Primary Master HDD failed)
– Check the physical connection of HDD and whether it is connected to Primary IDE
– Check for the proper position of Master Jumper. Refer to the label on the HDD for
this.
– Check for loose contact of interface cable and Power cable
– Try changing the Interface cable
– Check the disk in another IDE port
– Check for proper voltages at the 4 pin power connector
– Check whether the IDE controllers are enabled. If disabled enable the same.
– Check for the BIOS Settings to be correct – try selecting the “Auto detect” option first.
If still not detected, try detecting the HDD manually by entering Cylinder, Head, and
Sector information.
– Try using the drive capacity limit jumper if you are connecting a new Hard Disk in a
system with old BIOS.
• Data Access Time is more – Disk is running very slow
– Try defragmenting the Disk with Defrag command in DOS and defragment Utility in
Windows
– Check for the presence of virus with an updated Antivirus Software
• Disk is giving abnormal sound
– The Disk might have got physically damaged. The Disk has to be replaced
• Bad Sectors are more
– Run Scandisk / chkdsk to mark the bad sectors in the Hard Disk
– If it looks to be growing continuously, replace the Hard Disk
• HDD not getting detected to full capacity
– If the BIOS version is old, try upgrading to a new version
– Enable LBA method of addressing instead of CHS method
– Try using the latest version of FDISK program if the problem is within the Windows
Operating System
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