I have a computer that is giving, no boot disk found errors… but only sometimes.
Sometimes it boots perfectly (98SE) and other times it gives the error. When it is in the error giving mode, CMOS shows the HD, but when I try “find IDE drives” in setup, it does not find a drive.
I have changed drive cables with no difference.
The last time it fired up, I ran scandisk, then ran a defragger and surface checker. Everything checked out just fine, no errors, no problemss.
The next time I tried to boot, got boot error. It will boot fine from floppies or CD’s. When booting from 98 boot floppy, you can go to C, and dir will show the stuff on the disk, but if you try to sys c: you get no hd found same with fdisk /mbr.
Nothing seems to add up. Any help appreciated.
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