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Old Aug 19th, 2006, 07:03 PM       
What kind of controller does the hard drive use?
The main types are ATA, RAID, and SATA.

If the drive uses a small cable with kind of a thin termination that only has a few gold pins on a small insert in the middle of it, then you have SATA.

If it uses a bunch of pins then it is ATA or RAID.

Its searching for a parallel drive, and you may have a serial drive. Sometimes this can get reset in the BIOS.

Also, your hard drive might just be fucked. When those things give out, it is very hard to fix them.
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