[mythtvnz] Looks like my system drive is faulty - ideas?

[Steven Ellis]

On Sun, June 24, 2012 1:31 pm, David Moore wrote:
> My system won't boot today unless I unplug the boot drive. Can't even
> get into the BIOS setup. Just hangs with no POST beeps/messages and the
> hdd led permanently on. So I can't boot into a cd to try and
> diagnose/repair the drive. I can boot a cd if I disconnect the boot hdd..
> Any ideas how I can get round this so I can try and fix the boot drive?

Is it IDE or SATA?

If its sata an option might be an external USB -> SATA adapter so you can
try to access the drive on another system that has already booted.

Steve


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