[RESOLVED] Hard disk fails to start up

[jorisb]

When I start up my computer after it has been off for a while my hard disk fails to start up. I can hear it getting up to speed and then it starts to slow down immediately. Whenever this happens and it starts to look for boot device on IDE 0 it will tell me that it didn't find it. And when this happens my computer won't start up obviously. So I reboot a couple times and will start up again but this is really getting annoying.
So if anybody know what the problem is or how I can fix it please tell me.


thanks..

Joris

[techs]

If your bios has a setting for "hard disk pre-delay" try setting it higher. this will give the drive time to spin up before the bios attempts to access it.

[Ruslan]

Yes,it works. But as it seems to me, You have dying HDD. Check HDD' S.M.A.R.T status for "spin up" and ...RMA (if it possible).