no fixed disks present

[Guest]

i am trying to fix my friend's pc...it is an old toshiba with a 3 gig WD hdd. After getting all these messages about bad sectors all over the place, I decided to run the debug script to wipe the hdd. Now I try to run fdisk and it tells me there are NO FIXED DISKS PRESENT. I try to format and it says C: doeesnt support it. I am at a lost , any help is appreciated. Oh it is win 98 so i also tried scandisk but that didnt work. I also tried to scanreg/restore but also didnt work. PLEASE help.

 

[Lars_Coleman]

When you get that message from Fdisk it usually means that the hard drive isn't being recognized by the BIOS. So the first thing I would do is check to make sure connections are secure and BIOS settings are correct. As long as it is being recognized in the BIOS I would think it is either a bad hard drive or maybe your debug script hosed something?

Try going to WesternDigitals website (as long as the drive is recognized by the BIOS) and getting there Diag tool which includes a LLF test that will write zeros to the hard drive and see if that will fix the problem?

Laterz! *:O)

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