My hard drive crashed not too long ago and I restored it. Since then I have not had any problems of which to speak. However a short while back I started getting a message at every boot that there are errors on my hard drive. It then runs scan disk in dos, as though I had not shut down properly, but then it continues to run a thorough scan disk in dos. Which to be perfectly honest I did not know was possible in dos. Scandisk and norton sys works both failed to detect the errors once I am in windows so they wont repair them. I am thinking of formatting my HD and reinstalling windows so that it will write or skip over the bad sections of my hard drive. Does this sound like a good idea? Also I am also thinking of replacing my hard drive. I know all the system specs, finding a replacement drive will not be a problem. I am pretty computer literate. I upgraded the ram on both mine and my fathers computers which just involved snapping in a chip. What difficulty level would you say replacing the hard drive is I know it's not snapping in a chip. Is this something I should let someone else do or could I take a stab at it with just instructions? Thanks for any help you can give!

Disk errors at bootup. Go into theBios and make it read the H/d . ( Too long to explain why). TO replace the H/D, open case, remove old H/D,(Should be 4 screws), remove power cable,remove Ide cable. Insert new drive then reverse of the above. power connection is always yellow out, providing the H/D is topside up in box. Ide cable red side = No1 pin.Fdisk,format(with the system command,i.e. /s.Boot and make the 1st boot = cd.rom, reboot, place win98 O/S in the cd and away you go! New H/D are always set in the factory to Master.

Sorry, forgot to say.Before you Fdisk you have to go into the Bios and make sure it picks up the new drive.