humble3d Posted April 14, 2004 Share Posted April 14, 2004 Greetings, My Compaq Presario hard drive was "Accidentally" subjected to a "magnetic Paddle" which completely removed all data on both the main "C" and backup "D" drive. Backup Cd's were made prior to this; however, the system is not indicating any activily other than remaining on when plugged in ( NO on/off function); lights and fans are running but the cd, floppy and hard drive don't respond and resetting the bios (f1...f5...f10) have no effect. The monitor is working on another machine but not at all on the presario which formerly housed window xp home edition.Is there any way to restore this system from this horrible experience? Many thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
likuidkewl Posted April 14, 2004 Share Posted April 14, 2004 Try clearing the CMOS jumper, then remove the battery on the Motherboard for about 30 seconds to 1 minute and then try again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaosratt Posted April 14, 2004 Share Posted April 14, 2004 I'm not quite understanding this, did you wipe the drive while it was still in the machine? If you did, then you may have screwed the rest of the system, becasue the magnetic padles that I have used were powerfull enough to move the drive around and pick up!If not, then can you explain your problem in a little more detail? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X-Ecutioner Posted April 14, 2004 Share Posted April 14, 2004 You may want to try a low-level format. Get the formatting disk from your harddrive manufacturer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
humble3d Posted April 15, 2004 Author Share Posted April 15, 2004 Try clearing the CMOS jumper, then remove the battery on the Motherboard for about 30 seconds to 1 minute and then try again.Try clearing the CMOS jumpercould you please explain how to do this...i've found the battery...many thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
likuidkewl Posted April 15, 2004 Share Posted April 15, 2004 Try clearing the CMOS jumper, then remove the battery on the Motherboard for about 30 seconds to 1 minute and then try again.Try clearing the CMOS jumpercould you please explain how to do this...i've found the battery...many thanks It could be soldered to the board so be careful while trying to remove it, if you cannot remove it try hooking up some alligator clips to the terminals and ground out (earth) the batteries voltage. (This happens because the voltage will follow the path of least resistance.) I know common sense but some people are not aware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
humble3d Posted April 15, 2004 Author Share Posted April 15, 2004 I'm not quite understanding this, did you wipe the drive while it was still in the machine? If you did, then you may have screwed the rest of the system, becasue the magnetic padles that I have used were powerfull enough to move the drive around and pick up!If not, then can you explain your problem in a little more detail?thanks for your offer to help.sadly, the paddle came in contact with the machine andthe hard drive while it was running...At this point I cannot see anything on the monitorbut the monitor works fine in another box...lights and fans come on in the effected machine but sincei cannot see anything on the monitor, I don't knowif anything is coming up on the screen...cd tray won't open and the floppy seems dead as well andI cannot hear the hard drive...I removed the drive and ittested healty in another box...still a mystery to me...I will now believe what he told me about paddles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jono Posted April 15, 2004 Share Posted April 15, 2004 would someone please explain to me what one of these paddles is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
humble3d Posted April 15, 2004 Author Share Posted April 15, 2004 would someone please explain to me what one of these paddles is?apparently, hard drives are normally hard to fully erase (security concerns)so, someone developed a strong magnetic paddle that really and fully erases the hard drive beyond anyone's ability to extract sensitive data from it...I did not believe this "guy" so, he showed me...some friend he is for breaking my brand new computer He said they cost around $1000. and are used by D.o.D. and others agencies to get rid of old hard drives... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jono Posted April 15, 2004 Share Posted April 15, 2004 sounds like a real friend to me i would charge him for all the damages lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveXP Posted April 15, 2004 Share Posted April 15, 2004 if its a new compaq and you just got it then you cannot restore it has it uses a hide partition to restore its self you would normal acess it by pressing F10 on the first screen you see.Also you may have damage the Processor that would explain why the lights and fans come on but you see nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
likuidkewl Posted April 15, 2004 Share Posted April 15, 2004 So what are you results resetting the cmos and bios together? Because it is starting to sound like something else is wrong too, have you checked you Power supply voltages?Just as a side note, if it is new, tell HP you are a new computer user and you didn't know that refrigerator magnets weren't supposed to be stuck to the case, and could they fix it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jono Posted April 15, 2004 Share Posted April 15, 2004 i doubt the fridge magnets would do that lol thats your best bet take the computer back and say you had it near large speakers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamehead200 Posted April 15, 2004 Share Posted April 15, 2004 Please read this page:http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=15603Topic title changed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XtremeMaC Posted April 15, 2004 Share Posted April 15, 2004 okay first get rid of that friend then charge himsue himmake him call compaq.ask yourself what u have learned from this experience? now u say that the hdd is working on another comp i'd test all other components as well.if u bought it from compaq they should have a warranty. tell them it broke after power outage or something. or say my dog ate it or tell them that i broke it, okay that works. keep us posted i so much wonder what got f'ed up (btw sorry to have heard this, but i think its a little funny) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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