y laptop won?t boot up on my hard disk so I decided to run a disk test using scandisk but scandisk could not run because it cannot detect my hard disk. I decided to format my hard disk using disk manager 2.56 then it detected my hd and formats it. Now I?m installing win98 SE on the newly formatted disk, another problem comes up??the installation process would only go up to ?copying needed files? then it would hang?..so I decided to fdisk the said hd and format it again using window 98 boot disk. The formatting started on 1 % then it say ?allocating #######? where ###### is the number I could not remember, the formatting went on for about an hour having the same message ?allocating ###### on different % of the formatting process after theformatting is finished i got another message that says ?formatted 100 % ?
?Format terminated.?
To make it short the system still won?t recognize the formatted HD. Before I could still use my laptop normally. Please Help. By the way the HD brandis toshiba and the laptop is a compaq presario 1200XL-110. thank.
mike