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HDD Failure
Name: Anthony Kitchen Date: November 19, 2003 at 06:20:27 Pacific OS: Windows 98 CPU/Ram: 166/42MB
Comment:
HDD is detected at startup but when it attempts to load windows it makes a few loading sounds and then error message appears: "I/O error. Media 0 Track Damaged - Please replace disk and try again".
Name: Don Miller Date: November 19, 2003 at 06:35:34 Pacific
Reply:
Would you belive that the drive decided to go south for the winter? Probably laying on it's back in the sun enjoying rays .. sure won't work any more.
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Response Number 2
Name: MaadhuriMN Date: November 19, 2003 at 07:12:26 Pacific
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Don Miller,
Your answer made me LOL>ROFL> but, no doubt hit the nail on the head!
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Response Number 3
Name: wes Date: November 19, 2003 at 09:46:04 Pacific
Reply:
Just in case! Download a diagnostic from the hard drive manufacturer's web site.
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Response Number 4
Name: Dan Penny Date: November 19, 2003 at 20:22:43 Pacific
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I agree with wes. I've fixed TRACK 0 errors before on floppies and some HDD's. The manufacturers diagnostic tools *may* fix the drive. It's possible you may loose the data, but you may save the drive.
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Response Number 5
Name: Night Wolf Date: November 19, 2003 at 22:54:09 Pacific
Reply:
Try Repartitioning and reformatting, boot with a boot floppy that contains FDISK.EXE, and at the prompt type
FDISK /MBR
This clears the boot sector of your hard disk, and where this error is occurring.
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Response Number 6
Name: myself007 Date: November 20, 2003 at 03:14:11 Pacific
Reply:
This is a different problem. I am trying to use a 4 GB HDD on in an old pentium 133. The HDD is correctly recognised by the BIOS but when I kick off in DOS, using different startup software, only a fraction of the capacity of the HDD is recognised for formatting (about 500 MB only).
Please help if you have the expertise. No smart-alec comments please. I am 65 (much more ancient than the machine in question) and will not be amused.
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Response Number 7
Name: Don Miller Date: November 20, 2003 at 05:21:52 Pacific
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myeslef007 .. not a smart-alec answer. You've highjacked someone else's thread to your own purpose. Essentially, you started a new topic on his thread. That tends to make things get very confusing very quickly. You'd be better served to start your own thread so that people can respond to your question and not the original question with answers offered.
If you'll do that, then you'll be well served since there's a lot of help out here.
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