[pchelpers] Re: give us a clue


Thanks .........will do.............Billy
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Durham" <john.modec@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 8:28 PM
Subject: [pchelpers] Re: give us a clue


> 
> Maybe not. It's possible the IDE cable is loose, or the contacts are
> dirty. Take the ribbon cable off and spray with a little contact
> cleaner. Replace the cable if possible. If more than one drive is
> connected, take them one at a time and make sure the BIOS re-establishes
> the presence of the drives. Save all settings and once the drives come
> back, run a hardware testing program (checkit etc) to see that all is
> well.
> 
> Once you are satisfied, do a thorough Scandisk test to repair any errors
> and let us know what you discover.
> 
> Billyus wrote:
> > 
> > I installed an new hard-drive in August, and 2 days ago I booted my pc
> > and got no further than the black screen and boot sequence, and a
> > message saying "boot disk failure, insert system disk etc"
> > So I did just that and at the A prompt I wanted to run Norton ghost
> > and replace C image. got message saying that there was no E drive
> > where my ghost was installed to, at new A prompt typed "C" and was
> > told "bad command"
> > Decided to reboot and this time run Fdisk to view drives, and was told
> > that "no fixed drives were found"
> > Rebooted and this time got Fdisk to work but needed to delete C and D
> > drives twice before I could repartition my drive and format and re
> > install OS.
> > All went well but yesterday I booted up and the same thing happened,
> > only this time I tried to reboot and it did boot into windows and so
> > far it's running ok...........is my new drive on the way out?
> 
> -- 
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