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

[David Moore]

On 24/06/2012, at 2:59 PM, Stephen Worthington <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:

> On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 13:55:42 +1200 (NZST), you wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 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
> 
> SATA is normally hotswap, so you can unplug the drive, boot from CD
> and then plug it in and see what happens.  But if it is preventing the
> system from booting into BIOS, then it is likely pulling down the
> power supply, so plugging it in may just shut the PC down again.  I
> would recommend unplugging as much of your PC as you can when trying
> things that are killing the power supply.
> 
Didn't know that. Thanks. Pulled the SATA lead and boot goes as normal up to the point that my bootable (I thought) cd didn't. So it's not a power problem at least. Must be something hanging the SATA controller.