I bought a 10 gig hard drive as a boot up hdd and was using it the other day quite happily. I did a defrag of the system that didnt work in normal, so started it in safe mode instead. It only got so far before it stopped because of restarting at 10 percent. I cont/alt/del my system, and when it came back up it did a scandisk (blue screen), but with no writing on the screen - that was as far as i could get. Eventually i flattened my pc again and tried booting off this disk - the pc couldnt find a fixed disk. So am back using another old drive and just fed up that my new one is not doing anything. Any help on what i'm doing wrong would be appreciated.

This "New" 10g drive, Was it really new or was it second hand. I didn't think anyone still sold new drives that small. If it's new then RMA it. If it was used then the old latin "Caveat Emptor" applies. If your bios no longer detects it then even the manufacturer's diagnostic tool won't help now. Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him to fish and you feed him for life.

Well if im not wrong, its de OS not de hard drive, cos my dad go a Win98SE also, everytime it will restart, ask u do scan disk n come out all de errors and neva get defraged, but de prob is resolved when he upgrades to Win2K. Try dis HD on another motherboard see how

"If your bios no longer detects it then even the manufacturer's diagnostic tool won't help now." That's not necessarily true. Most manufacturer's diagnostic programs bypass the bios and access the hard drive directly.

Gotta agree with Ric59 on this. To me the line that gives it away is "the pc couldnt find a fixed disk" Take the HDD back to whoever you got it off and say you sold me a pup(Dodgy gear) BTW "Caveat Emptor" = "Let the buyer beware" for our non latin speaking followers. Wolfeymole On a hot summers night would you offer your throat to the Wolf with the Red Roses?