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dafi came back home this evening to find my pc in a sorry state.
my main hard drive keeps giving me this error:
i have tried everything i can think of to make it work again [restarting windows, scandisk, checking the IDE cable & power cables, shouting at it, moving it from one IDE slot to the other] but all to no avail :(
i ran partition magic in the hope that it might be able to help... it told me this:
the disk in question had something in the region of 100GB of information on it which i really don't want to lose.
don't know if it makes any differnce or not, but i'm using is windows 98.
if anyone has any ideas as to how i can fix this problem, please let me know.
my main hard drive keeps giving me this error:
i have tried everything i can think of to make it work again [restarting windows, scandisk, checking the IDE cable & power cables, shouting at it, moving it from one IDE slot to the other] but all to no avail :(
i ran partition magic in the hope that it might be able to help... it told me this:
the disk in question had something in the region of 100GB of information on it which i really don't want to lose.
don't know if it makes any differnce or not, but i'm using is windows 98.
if anyone has any ideas as to how i can fix this problem, please let me know.
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Date: 2004-12-14 11:37 am (UTC)It looks like it's probably a hardware fault, but you might want to try to install Windows 2000 or XP and see if they can read it.
The size of the harddrive makes me think that maybe you've run into the size limit built into earlier versions of Windows. If you try to install windows 2000 you can get a patch for it (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013). I believe Windows XP already has the ability to read large drives.
Good luck...
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Date: 2004-12-14 02:55 pm (UTC)