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Bad Hard Drive?

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by ladlenits

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whenever i try to boot the computer from the Hard drive i get a message "Data error drive C:" This message pops up about half way through the winddows 98 loading process. Any ideas on what this might be?

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by 1stladytech

Your drive may indeed be failing, it also could just have corruption. I would back up any data that you need, and then try to format the drive. If the format completes without errors, then you should be able to continue to use the drive. If you get any messages about trying to recover allocation units during the format, or bad spots after the format, replace the drive.

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by dustbunnyden_webmaster

Before you go blowing off your machine. Try running chkdisk with your win98 boot disk. If that doesn't work, and you are comfortable opening your box up, check your cables and make sure that they are tight. I ran into this problem last week and thatwas the case.

If that doesn't work, then I would go and buy another HD.

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