Acer Aspire 1600 HDD Failure?
Hello, I have an Acer Aspire 1600 laptop, It suddenly gave "Disk Error" message when booting - white text/dark screen/upper left corner. I reboot and it can not find HDD. The HDD is Hitachi DK23EA-40 (ATA-5 Enhanced IDE - not that I understand... ), original from factory. I can reach BIOS - the HDD is seen there (Primary), but that's it. I used the ACER recovery discs and they can not help. The issue (confusing) is that I keep on getting different error messages - all relating to HDD. Typical is to get after the "Press F2/F12" stage in start up (dark screen/white text): "Disk Error. Press any key to restart". With Win98 Acer recovery disc, I get a DOS prompt - managed to see c: driver <dir> content once - never again. Now it says "Volume in Drive C is MS-Ramdrive Directory C: File not Found." The WinXP Acer discs fail to find a large drive to install. Once reached the SafeMode options - still failed to boot.Is the HDD dead? Could it be contact issue? Memory? Would love your advice! :confused:
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