I am having a problem with a SeaGate Barracuda 200 MB drive that was installed to replace a failing IBM Deskstar. The drive was installed using the SeaGate software that ghosted the old drive when the new was connected as a slave. I successfully got the new drive running with no difficulties whatsoever as the new master. I left the old drive as a primary slave until I was done moving files to the new drive. The system worked fine for about a week, then performance got squirrely and I rebooted. (It had been rebooted multiple times after being put into service as the master drive with no problems of any kind prior to this occurrence) Nothing has worked since. I get the 'A disk read error occurred' and CTRL-ALT-DELETE just repeats the same sequence. Allowing it to boot from the CD gets me a CHECKING HARDWARE CONFIGURATION, followed by a black screen and no visible signs of life. I put a new drive cable on, replaced the master jumper on the drive, etc., nothing has worked. SeaGates Desktop diagnostic shows the drive to be perfectly fine when booting from their floppies. It did show a severe problem with the old deskstar, which I removed from use during diagnostics to ensure that wasn't creating a problem for me. The problem continues regardless of whether the old drive is slaved, whether the new drive is in cable select or set to primary master. If I attempt to start with no hard drive, the windows setup program on the CD takes right off into setup as it should. Conversation with SeaGate has led me no where. I'd really appreciate some suggestions on this difficulty. I have seen many other similar problems posted elsewhere, but have yet to see anyone post a reply indicating a solution. Here's a great chance for all the super techies to show
their stuff.
Thanks
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