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I'm having an intermittent problem with a laptop which I think is either a bad/marginal hard drive or maybe an ide controller...
Here's what it does...periodically it will refuse to boot from the hard disk, so I boot from a 98 start disk...it tells me that there is no partition information on the c: drive and that there are 3 possible causes 1) a virus 2) the disk needs to be fdisked and I forget the 3rd...
So, I took it apart and removed the hard drive, looked at it made sure it was properly connected and put it back together (I needed the model # for a replacement) Rebooted it w/startup disk, same error message about the hard drive, so I booted it with a Norton disk, no viruses found...
Here's the weird part...just for the hell of it, I restarted it and it booted perfectly (albeit it ran scandisk), I'm defragging the drive now and it seems to be running flawlessly...
So, anybody have any ideas what might be wrong with it, or how to test the hd? Thanks, sorry the post is so long, Happy New Year
Here's what it does...periodically it will refuse to boot from the hard disk, so I boot from a 98 start disk...it tells me that there is no partition information on the c: drive and that there are 3 possible causes 1) a virus 2) the disk needs to be fdisked and I forget the 3rd...
So, I took it apart and removed the hard drive, looked at it made sure it was properly connected and put it back together (I needed the model # for a replacement) Rebooted it w/startup disk, same error message about the hard drive, so I booted it with a Norton disk, no viruses found...
Here's the weird part...just for the hell of it, I restarted it and it booted perfectly (albeit it ran scandisk), I'm defragging the drive now and it seems to be running flawlessly...
So, anybody have any ideas what might be wrong with it, or how to test the hd? Thanks, sorry the post is so long, Happy New Year