skitty Posted October 3, 2005 Share Posted October 3, 2005 The hard drive in my parents computer has just buggered up. its recognised in the bios but when it tried to boot the os it says boot disc failure. any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I_Broke_My_MHZ Posted October 3, 2005 Share Posted October 3, 2005 Doesn't sound like a hard drive problem. The data was probably corrupted. Boot into the recovery console and run chkdsk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skitty Posted October 3, 2005 Author Share Posted October 3, 2005 I've booted into the recovery console but it says theres no c drive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I_Broke_My_MHZ Posted October 4, 2005 Share Posted October 4, 2005 Oh, well then maybe there is a problem with the hard drive. The BIOS should tell you that there is something wrong. I guess the computer must not have SMART technology for whatever reason. I suggest booting with a floppy, preferably a Win98 floppy, and see if you can run fdisk and change it to fat32. If fdisk can't access a disk at all then the hard drive is definately busted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjz Posted October 5, 2005 Share Posted October 5, 2005 I would get the manufactured hd utilities boot cd/floppy and run a check with those. A LLF might be needed. Depending on the utitity and the problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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