[TechAssist] Re: seagate hard drive problem
- From: "RS Tek Inc" <rstek@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 14:53:57 -0500
Ok, first things first, you don't need a management program for your Hd.
Go to fdisk and take it to one partition. Multiple partitions are not
needed anymore. Restart the pc with your win98 boot disk in drive A and
your cd in the cd drive. When you get your A prompt type"setup" then let
windows format your HD and install itself. If it still blows up you may
have a dirty cd-rom drive. I've had many problems with bum cd-rom drives
causing problems like you described. Lastly, try re-loading the default
settings for the bios. They usually will work with a clean install.
If you have any other questions let me know.
Frank
Rs-Tek Inc.
----- Original Message -----
From: "adam miller" <adamt123@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 2:14 PM
Subject: [TechAssist] seagate hard drive problem
>
> hello,
>
> i have a stupid problem with a seagate st31720 hard drive. i wanted to
> re-install windows from scratch on a differant computer, and i formatted
the
> whole drive and re partitioned it, without knowing you had to install this
> disk manager, anyway, i downloaded the disk manager and ran fdisk one more
> time, scandisk says no errors are found on the drive, so i try to run
setup
> for window 98, it goes through scandisk, and after you exit scandisk and
go
> to the screen where it says windows is installing files nesacary for
setup,
> the computer freezes, i tried another disc and i get differant errors,
like
> package is corrupt, and so on, everything looks ok in the bios, i am using
a
> via 700MHZ processor, award bios, anyone have any ideas? this thing is
> driving me crazy.............im trying to put a computer together for one
of
> my nephews, so any advice is much apreciate,
>
> troy
>
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