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by scooter318 Apr 28, 2003 last reply Apr 29, 2003

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I've been trying to format this hard drive for 2 days now. It keeps telling me that the partition was successfully created but formatting of drive 1 failed because the system files could not be copied because the file msdos.sys could not be copied because there was Int 13h error 4 reading drive 0 cylinder 66 head 0 sect 15 count 1. I've redone my bootdisk several times and it still tells me the same thing. I've changed out ram,video,and cpu still the same thing.

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by c.mcfadden Apr 28, 2003

have u tried running scandisk on ur c:Drive??

by scooter318 Apr 28, 2003

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by scooter318 Apr 28, 2003

how can i run scandisk i can't boot from any floppy

by ann777 Apr 28, 2003

Did you re-do your bootdisk from the same computer?

Your best option is to find a clean computer, and create a Win9x bootdisk.

There are quite a few virus(es) that appear as int errors... Changing out RAM, CPU and video will not affect theMBR on the hdd. If you cannot get this hdd going with a normal bootdisk, then replace the drive.

http://www.viruslist.com/eng/viruslist.html?id=1398

The third or fourth one down from the above list ???
MAD.3544,4340
MAD.4268,5054
etc.

by scooter318 Apr 28, 2003

did all that and none of that helps either, i've never had this kind of problem before.

by c.mcfadden Apr 28, 2003

sorry i should have said-boot to the floppy and type "FORMAT C:"you don't have to type /s for the system files simply fdisk>delete part>create part> and format c:.You could also get a set of boot disk from partitation magic and delete and create thepartition.If you want to run scandisk boot to the floppy and scandisk c:.

by c.mcfadden Apr 28, 2003

you could olso boot to ur cd drive,change the boot order in the bios.

by c.mcfadden Apr 28, 2003

I cannot see in your question were you say that your floppy drive does not work??I am i missing something??

by scooter318 Apr 28, 2003

when i boot to the floppy it tells me that oakcd is missing and that himem is missing and it reboots to the a prompt.

by thechas Apr 28, 2003

Sounds like you have a bad floppy drive in the system.

Try a different floppy drive and see if that works.

If not, you then have either a bad hard drive, or a motherboard / RAM problem.

Make sure that the hard drive was detected properly inBIOS settings, and that the LBA mode is correct.

You can also check the hard drive by placing it in another system.

Chas

by scooter318 Apr 28, 2003

the floppy works fine, i've used it in another system today

by c.mcfadden Apr 28, 2003

Format a good floppy and go to http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm (remove spaces in url)and download a Win98 boot disk leave the floppy in the a:drive and double click the download,you have created a good boot disk.
when u get to the a:format c: and when finished reboot pc(leave floppy in)when u get to the a:setup be sure to have the cd in the drive and install windows.

Good luck

by scooter318 Apr 28, 2003

went to bootdisk.com made a bootdisk and left it in the pc. rebooted and it tried to load the files as usual then it said that the oakcd and himem are missing or corrupt. I've tried every version of boot cd. 95,98,Me,NT/2000/&XP this hard drive justwill not format. i have never,never had this kind of problem before. I'm thinking it's something wrong with the drive itself, because all the bootdisk work on my other computers.

by c.mcfadden Apr 28, 2003

what kind of drive is (make)maxtor/WD???if so go to there website and download there util and run on the HD and u will find out if the drive is toast.
I also have a program called spinrite look it up and see if it's of any use and i can email under1/2 mb.

by scooter318 Apr 28, 2003

I've used the max blast plus and the ez-drive software none work. Could you please email me the program your talking about.i would be ever so greatful, and thanks alot.when you email it send it to my hotmail address, it's ericmoody@hotmail.com

by c.mcfadden Apr 28, 2003

YGM

by scooter318 Apr 28, 2003

what does that mean

by tduval Apr 28, 2003

3 solutions :
- your hard drive is defective ;
- your mother board is defective ;
- you have a conflict with IRQ 14, some add on card is trying to use it.

1) Hard drive : install in another computer, and try to start installation. No need to go beyond format.
2) Mother board : tested in 1. If HD format ok, certainly a pbm with your board. May be cable ?
3) Conflict : remove any unnecessary card from your computer.

And, why do you boot diskette ? Any OS CD is bootable.

by scooter318 Apr 29, 2003

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by fred07 Apr 28, 2003

Hi Scooter, been there done that. Take a deep breath and reseat all cabling and power connections. In bios set floppy as 1st boot device and cdrom as 2nd boot and HDD 0 as third boot device. put any floppy in and see if it boots or gives error msg. of "invalid disk" or a boot disk and it boots. If not your floppy drive is bad. If it is good then use a different floppy to boot from as the one you are using needs to be full formated not quick erase. Then reload your boot floppy from bootdisk.com and try again. do a full format from dos on floppy to C: drive and go from there. OOP's, make sure red line on cables is toward the power plug on all devices [cd, HDD, floppy]. I hope this helps and I will keep track as I can.

by scooter318 Apr 29, 2003

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by jkaras Apr 28, 2003

The only thing I can contribute to this is get another HDD and slave it to the new one and see if you can access it and repair or pitch it in the garbage and give up. If new one loads and works properly you know its a defective HDD which it probablyis vs. memory/mb etc.... Regardless good luck.