When you used Seagate tools to set up hdd very likely hdd was not identifed correctly in bios (bad battery) and the DDO was installed. Now one...
that is normal, you will have the hdd partitions than the ram drive. The cd can be any letter after that, but will be displayed dueing boot. If...
The program that installs the DDO will put it onto the Boot HDD even if it is the non boot hdd that needs the DDO. If the DDO was not put onto...
With the above error would suspect bad ram or bad boot floppy diskette.
the 120g nor the 160g hdd should not have needed a Disk Drive Overlay (ez-drive). The only way for EZ to be installed is by using the setup...
Yes, must boot from the cd . If it does not work post the make/model of comp, some comps uses the fat32 partition that XP tried to install...
Hi all Ez-drive can be a real pain, but if it is removed all data will be lost due to differences in how it addresses the hdd and the cmos does....
Have never used a eMachine restore cd. I do know if you select recovery it will give a message that the hdd will be formated, loosing all your...
surferdude2 said: I do agree the floppy is a useful test but it only says the boot code in the MBR is not the problem but the Master Partition...
If you are saying, by doing the above the comp will boot into XP, but while using a XP boot floppy will not work, I would first replace the...
Will butt in for a sec. It does indeed look like your hdd , takes to long to get up to speed when cold. There might be an entrie in the bios...
the floppy diskettes may very well be good. I checked some of mine out that had been in an outbuilding for 10 years and they have no problem. The...
{ "HD not partitioned...} you will first need to run FDISK and make a partition ,then format the hdd. When you run FDISK and it asks if you want...
I suggest running TESTDISK http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html. It says it will run under XP but I've only ran it under dos. Read...
Will butt in for one post. Try the XP boot floppy in a good working XP comp and verify the floppy is working. IF you are not, you must format...
Suspect the problem was created with PM some how. things to try: 1) from Recvoery console run CHKDSK 2) from DOS bootup run TESTDISK , will...
Basically agree with Bill Castner but sometimes things will go wrong. IF the data files are non replaceable BACKUP the data. One of course one...
The hdd is now a door stop only, can not be recovered. sorry to say, to late. One should use the freeze only as very last resort. After...
would go to the hdd manufacture site and use their test utility, if the utility says the hdd is good then might find a program to fix the error....
To test the hdd , go to the manufacture and use their test utility. If it is reported as good then we can go from there.
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