History: P11 266 using 40gig Maxtor hd that was partitioned
with partion magic 5 into 3 partions (c:6gig D:8gig E:25gig)
running win98se for a year or so.
upgraded to win 2000 installed on C: drive changing
files system for c to ntf. left d and e the way they were.
got virus!... lots of trouble! Crashed hard!
would not reboot. could not boot up on startup disk..
said disk io error... all versions of boot disk gave me
disk io error.
so put partion magic emergency boot disk in....it worked allowing
me to put C: back to fat32 the same as it was... seemed to work.
But boot up to hard drive failed but
thats when bios stopped seeing hard drive.
I have now used all diagnostics available to me to no avail.
updated bios to make sure.
put in another hard drive and it booted perfectly.
Got new ribbons, rechecked jumpers and pins.
used maxtor hard drive utilities to boot up computer
.. it found the hard drive and brought up these errors.
smart enable command failure,
bios extension support failed,
partition information read failure,
ERROR CODE S01
drive recal test failed
smart disable function failed
ERROR CODE UK0E02
ADVANCED DIAGNOSTICS..
LBA 0 BLOCKS 0 HEADS 16 SPT 63
MAXIMUM LBA 0
CONGRADULATIONS HARD DRIVE IS NOW ERROR FREE AND
RECERTIFIED.
Bios does not see hard drive, cannot use Fdisk or
Fdisk /mbr cannot put sys files onto hard drisk.
used debug to remove all hard drive info..
used debug to remove all dos partitions
used debug to remove all non dos partitions and clean
hard drive completely.
I am determined but as you can tell I really do not
know what to do...
ANY help would be so appreciated...
It would seem that the actual drive is fine, but the
io or start up disk info is gone and cannot get it
back on.
Thankyou for any advise you can give me

thanks so much for your
time.
sam.

Real simple test. Boot up on a boot diskette containing fdisk. Go into fdisk. Does is say no hard drives found? if so...

Dude the drive died. Consider it a vegetable on life support. That congrat message at the end should be ignored since these are the true messages:
smart enable command failure,
bios extension support failed,
partition information read failure,
drive recal test failed
smart disable function failed

the drive FAILED. Replace the drive.