win98 wont boot/cant find c: drive.

gibbones · #1 August 27th, 2003, 03:49 PM

Hi I am having trouble getting a computer to boot properly. The error message states it cant find a current drive? or something to that effect. I tried using a bootdisk with dos commands however all of them cant find the drive. I am wondering if the hard drive went T-U? If you know what I mean jelly bean. I am about to take my fixit hammer and fix this hard drive please help. :no:

Jim Smith · #2 August 27th, 2003, 05:40 PM

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Originally Posted by gibbones

Hi I am having trouble getting a computer to boot properly. The error message states it cant find a current drive? or something to that effect. I tried using a bootdisk with dos commands however all of them cant find the drive. I am wondering if the hard drive went T-U? If you know what I mean jelly bean. I am about to take my fixit hammer and fix this hard drive please help. :no:

Might be helpful if you would post the exact error message. To your knowledge, did it once boot to the OS on the c drive? Is the c drive detected by the BIOS during boot up? Does fdisk see the c drive?

You might disconnect and then reconnect the IDE cable and power supply to the hard drive. Also, try a different power cable and/or IDE channel or cable.

gibbones · #3 August 27th, 2003, 07:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Jim Smith

Might be helpful if you would post the exact error message. To your knowledge, did it once boot to the OS on the c drive? Is the c drive detected by the BIOS during boot up? Does fdisk see the c drive?

You might disconnect and then reconnect the IDE cable and power supply to the hard drive. Also, try a different power cable and/or IDE channel or cable.

the error message is "does not detect drive" and yes 98 booted up and one day it did not boot. I used a different power cable. I used a boot disk and tried all the dos command, like fdisk, sys c: chkdisk format and nothing will run seems like it does not detect the drive. Cant tell about the bios it seems to run through ok without any error messages poping up. cant get sys to copy files it displays cant detect drive. Oh yes one of the error messages says no fat or fat32 partican found. Sorry for the spelling dont have my glasses on.

gibbones · #4 August 27th, 2003, 08:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Jim Smith

Might be helpful if you would post the exact error message. To your knowledge, did it once boot to the OS on the c drive? Is the c drive detected by the BIOS during boot up? Does fdisk see the c drive?

You might disconnect and then reconnect the IDE cable and power supply to the hard drive. Also, try a different power cable and/or IDE channel or cable.

Oh yes Jim when I tried to to a cd\ c: it said "bad command" I think the c drive I found was the virtural drive that the bootdisk created in ram. I had another fact howevr it went the way of the dodo's (you know that bird that some conquering european clubed in the head I think).

**GretaP** · #5 August 27th, 2003, 09:46 PM

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Originally Posted by gibbones

I think the c drive I found was the virtural drive that the bootdisk created in ram.

Yes, if there is no C partition detected on the hard drive, the virtual drive created by the bootdisk will take the C drive designation.

If you receive a "No fixed disks present" error message when you invoke FDISK from the A: prompt, this is usually a good indication that the hard drive has gone bad. You could also try using a new IDE (ribbon) cable and see if that's the culprit.

**jtdoom** · #6 August 28th, 2003, 07:05 PM

hi

just to let you know
CD\ C: is indeed a bad command
but the error would probably say "too many parameters" or "syntax error"
(i gotta translate things I see on screen...)