Can't boot up

[Tram]

Built it almost a year ago with a new IBM Deskstar HD. Now I can't boot up. It
was running fine before. I'm (was) Running Win98se., it goes to the Win98 screen
then goes black and says can't find C: drive.
I ran the rescue disk for Norton Anti Virus found nothing. Any idea's?????
Thanks for any help
~Tram

 

[elzt]

First check if the IDE and power cables is attached securely to your HDD. Then try to boot up from a bootable floppy disk and simply enter "DIR C:" to see if HDD responses. If it still says can't find C: drive, then you might check if it is corrupted...

 

[lhgpoobaa]

yep. ensure its pluged in firmly.
then install onto a floppy the IBM program DFT.
run DFT.

my bet is that your drive has died.

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[Tram]

Thanks all for the info. It seems that these Deskstars are prone to failure. Oh well.
Just going by what I had read on web sites and in magazines.
I used the bootable floppy and yes, I can read the "C" drive's dir. Now what? LOL
~Tram

 

[PCcashCow]

refresh the os
then run diags from windows
not nortons. if you want to use nortans back up your system with gost to a spare drive and pray for the best
-Tim

It seems that every time I reboot my wallet get smaller.