Speaking of sounds from drives, I cant really hear my laptops drives unless I put my ear REAL close to them, well anyway, I've noticed that if I leave the closet door open at night, any time someone fools around on this forum, I can hear the HDD clicking around. I had to get out of my nice warm bed last night and go into the cold harsh reality just to close the door!
Speaking of sounds from drives, I cant really hear my laptops drives unless I put my ear REAL close to them, well anyway, I've noticed that if I leave the closet door open at night, any time someone fools around on this forum, I can hear the HDD clicking around. I had to get out of my nice warm bed last night and go into the cold harsh reality just to close the door!
I remember when my cousins old 233 MHZ computer had the exact error. The harddrive isn't dead yet. It is a sign of it dying. Not sure if spinright will work or not. Its worth a try.
I remember when my cousins old 233 MHZ computer had the exact error. The harddrive isn't dead yet. It is a sign of it dying. Not sure if spinright will work or not. Its worth a try.
Yes Dying if it makes anynoise its alive. I got an old 6 GB. You plug in in a computer the computer want turn on at all. That means the 6 GB is dead. Your drive isn't dead yet. It makes sounds so its still alive just not accessable. Its on the verge of dying or should i say Its going south.
I got an old 6 GB. You plug in in a computer the computer want turn on at all.
That sounds like there's a short in it somewhere.
Anyrate, I'm back on AIM after the reinstall so I can give you it.
-Q
Q I got the drive from an old Compaq deskpro that i got at a Goodwill store for $15.00. I got the deskpro home hit the power button nothing happened. But i saw a green light inside the case from the back. So i said hummm something is causeing it not to turn on. So i unplug it take cover off unhook harddrive plug it in hit the power it comes on. People say compaqs are crapaqs. Well that deskpro was a PII 300 Mhz. I put a PIII 500 Mhz in it and it aucually posted at 500 MHZ. I put that same PIII 500 Mhz in a Dell Dimension i got a system halted message. Anyway i still got the drive for some reason not sure why i hold on to things like that.
I'll IM Q today, perhaps he can help. 'Invalid System Disk' now appears. The 98 boot disk doesn't work, only the sdisk+FreeDos floppy works to remove the message.
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Does your BIOS see the Hard Drive?
Nick
-Q
-Alexander Zarach
It occurs during win98 startup-empty floppy/cd drives. The 98 logo is suddenly replaced by the dos? error message.
-Alexander Zarach
I'd suggest hitting it with something like SpinRite and seeing if that clears it up.
-Q
-Q
PS. It's a disk-checking software, and a cool one at that.
OMG NO! THE EFFORT!!11
-Q
-Q
Dying?!
That sounds like there's a short in it somewhere.
Anyrate, I'm back on AIM after the reinstall so I can give you it.
-Q
Q I got the drive from an old Compaq deskpro that i got at a Goodwill store for $15.00. I got the deskpro home hit the power button nothing happened. But i saw a green light inside the case from the back. So i said hummm something is causeing it not to turn on. So i unplug it take cover off unhook harddrive plug it in hit the power it comes on. People say compaqs are crapaqs. Well that deskpro was a PII 300 Mhz. I put a PIII 500 Mhz in it and it aucually posted at 500 MHZ. I put that same PIII 500 Mhz in a Dell Dimension i got a system halted message. Anyway i still got the drive for some reason not sure why i hold on to things like that.
Me amongst them, at least the ones I've seen were terrible.
HeHe, I do the same for some strange reason...
-Q
PS. Moved to Help > Hardware
It's ten years old!