Hard Drive not responding

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HI friends,
On booting my hard drive is not responding, "a blue screen appears saying to check for viruses, or run chkdsk/f or to check for the proper installation of the hard drive. What could be the possible reason for it. Pls guide....

What u r watching is called BSOD (Blue screen of death)

Possible reasons:-
1>Bad sector in the OS partition
2>Loose cables
3>Faulty RAM (Highly possible)
4>Driver mismatch (any driver, s/w u have installed recently is having issue with ur PC)

Can u boot into SafeMode of XP?
If yes, un-install any s/w u've recently installed. Also run a chkdsk on ur OS drive.

If u can't even boot into safemode, check ur data cable connection.
Then check ur RAM. Try the RAm module(s) in different slots.

Report back ur results.

ma deer,

please check your bios screen if the HDD is available!!

rose