Machine will not boot up..replace disk??

Sounds like you lost your hard drive. Try downloading diag. software from the hard drive manufacturer. Check if it can be repaired. Is it under warranty yet. normally 3 years. IBM replaced one for me after jumping through all there hoops.

Good Luck
Richard Bolha

Have you went into the BIOS setup and checked your boot drive order?

this has happened to me before. just check your IDE and power connecrions to the Hard Drive. remove cables, check ports for dust, and put cables back. that should work. if not, use different cables and try again.

If all the previous suggestions fail, try to place the drive into another machine as the slave drive. If you can still access the data, copy it over to a new drive using powerquest's drive copy or something similar, your disk is probably pooched...or at least the mbr is.
Good luck!

Mike

check bios to make sure that you are booting from the hd. but more likely make sure that the jumpers on all of the ide drives are set. if on a cable, one is set to line whatever the other is set to may be ignored or cause a conflict.

In case it involves a problem with the Master boot Record, you might try booting with the startup disk again, and use the fdisk /mbr command, then try rebooting. Just a thought.

You could try booting from a floppy and starting fdisk (a:fdisk) but dont go changing anythin all you are intrested in is the partition information this is in the 4 choices you get when fdisk is up and running. this will tell you how your disk looksas in does it have a file dos file system and is it active. if it shows nothing or that it is corrupt then follow the answers above and copy your data onto a diffrent h/d as long as you can get to it from a diffrent machine with your disk set as secondary and do check your connections.

Have you tried running a virus checking program from a clean boot?possibly a virus in your master boot record.
set your first boot device in cmos to cdrom.then insert a virus checking utility into the cdrom.reboot and run program to check.This fix has worked for me before.

Hi!
sorry for my english i am a german on the Phl.so now:get your CD-as boot cd(in the Bios)and den startet.make new boot floppy.
or change your floppy_drive maybee its
defect????

Boot using windows startup disk, after the command prompt shows up, type this command:

sys c:

Replace c with appropriate drive letter if you use other letter, but it's ussually c:.

Boot using windows startup disk, after the command prompt shows up, type this command:

sys c:

Replace c with appropriate drive letter if you use other letter, but it's ussually c:.

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