Drive 1 not found....

Question

Hello,

I have a Dell Dimension 9150 (2006) which was working properly until a few days ago. Each time I try to start it, I get this screen :

F1 does not work, and when I hit the f2 key, I have switched the different drives to off and on again, but to no avail.

Can somebody tell me what I should try now?

Thanks in advance!

DCX4EVER · Answer

It appears from your sceen shot that you are running 2 drives under raid 0 and that one of your drives has failed. You will need to replace the defective drive and reload your operating system. I hope you have a back up of all your files since they will be unrecoverable under this raid setting. Good Luck.

gwforeman · Answer

How many physical drives do you have in that Aray?

Epicure01 · Answer

Thanks for the quick answers!

This is an old pc and therefore I don't think it's worthwhile to invest in new drives (luckily I have 2 back-ups of the data).

For my understanding : how do you see on the screen shot there is one drive (out of the two) which is defective?

And is this the only possible explanation? I mean, I did a disk check a few weeks ago, and everything was ok. Could it not be the connection between the mother board and the hard drives? (I'm not a hardware specialist :emotion-6: )

shesagordie · Answer

Epicure01

Because you did a disk check a few weeks ago, does not mean the hard drive has not failed.

Regards to the connections, you can open the case, remove and reconnect the power and data cables to the hard drives and motherboard, to see if it makes a difference.

To find which hard drive has failed, run DELL DIAGNOSTICS

Bev.

DCX4EVER · Answer

From your screenshot it looks like your bios may have been reset as well. All 4 sata ports are reporting that there is no device attached. Try going into the bios and turn off the sata and ide ports that are not required and disable the floppy if you have none attached to the system. You are set up to operate in Raid 0 that will enable two drives to operate as one. Your physical drive size according to the raid is 500G but you are only reporting 250G so I assume that the drive associated with sata port 1 is not working since sata port 0 is reporting and reading correctly. Please double check all your connections as well since a bad power or sata connection will give the same error report. Good Luck.

Epicure01 · Answer

Thanks for this information. I will now open the cover and have a look at the connections on the mother board. I hope it's not too difficult :emotion-6:

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