I had a hard disk crash(Seagate 8.3Gb) on a PC with AMD K2-6(500Mhz.) machine with 128 RAM. I tried to recover the data but could not and thus reformatted the disk after using fdisk. But inspite of trying to insatll Win98 SE or Win 2K many times I could not as the C: drive kept giving errors. The disk is correctly recognised by BIOS at boot up.
I bought a new disk Hitachi Deskstar 40 GB and prepared it thru Fdisk and format on the same machine, but this disk also behaved the same way. I am not sure what the problem is and how to overcome this. I remove the new disk fearing that this may also crash. This disk is also recognised on boot up.
I can but upto DOS via floppy as well as CD-ROM bit cannot insatll anything on the old disk as the partition informaion keps changing or it shows “Media error on Drive C:”. Can somebody advise me please ?
