[CTS] Re: hard drive problem...no joy yet, any more ideas
- From: John Durham <john.modec@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 09:04:59 +1300
You are going to need a boot floppy in Drive A: (not CD) to start
repairing this. Hopefully you have the necessaries to get this small
thing going?
Annie Oldham wrote:
>
> I went into the bios , and set the primary disk thing to auto, then i
> was
> able to get the boot cd started, ( I do not have a boot floppy, just a
> cd )
> but then it stopped and said there where bad blocks encountered, mbr
> has
> been wiped, remove disks and restart the pc. Is there anything else i
> can
> do or is it time to get out my cheque book.
> the pc was running with windows millenium. help...anyone.???? thanx,
> annie
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