When turned on, the boot cycle does fine. Then when it tries to access the drive for loading windows, it beeps once, waits 10 seconds or so and does a continuous beep with black screen. There is an underline cursor to the upper left of the screen but the rest is black
Any suggestions?
SOURCE: WESTERN DIGITAL DRIVE BEEPING/NOT MOUNTING
Hello,
I have information and perhaps a way to save your data. If the above suggestion did not help, then you need a Hot Spare drive - I.E. another drive. However, if you follow this link, you may have a way to save your information. According to this info, since you are getting beeps, you may be able to load your information onto another drive.
http://www.wdc.com/en/library/sata/2779-001011.pdf
SOURCE: HD not recognized and makes 3 times beep...beep noise when conect
Sounds like the drive has gone south.
This is a bit of work, but if you have access to a Linux disc, load the Live CD and see if you can mount the drive from there.
This is not quick a quick solution but may be far cheaper than sending off to a recovery expert.
If you are not familiar with Linux, go to www.ubuntu.com and download the latest distro, V9.04. Download, burn a copy and boot from it. Be prepared to spend time doing this, but it may just save your valuable data.
I have many times been able to salvage data just by doing this, if Ubuntu sees the drive, you could copy the data to your C drive and reboot.
Best of luck!
tom
SOURCE: Vista 64 - slow boot with WD MyBook attached
This is caused if there are any system files on your external drives OR if you have set the bios to be able to boot from usb devices
One or the other is where you need to look.
SOURCE: Samsung 1tb external will not allow my computer to boot
Try checking your bios to see what harddrive the computer boots from.
Your PC might be trying to boot from that samsung story which I assume doesn't have an OS installed.
Cheers
Testimonial: "Good suggestion, but since I can't get into the boot menu with it plugged in, I can't check that."
SOURCE: I have the same problem HD turns on, makes
The problem is probably not enough power from the USB. Try plugging into one of the rear USB ports
hope this helps
Master/Slave designation is determined by jumpers on IDE drives. Most drives have adequate markings on them to identify these jumper positions. If not marked clearly, you will need the manufacturer's data to determine that designation.
If you are curious about a working system just power-up in set-up mode (usually by depressing (f1-or-f2) during boot-up sequence, your system-bios will display this information for you.
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