I am in need of some major help. I took my hard drive out of my computer, and brought it to my friends, who has Windows XP. I conected my hard drive as a slave, and I used his Cable internet to download stuff from Kazaa. I scanned it for virus's before I took it out, ect ect. It worked fine there, and I could access anything on it. I brought it home, put the pin on the back where it belonged. I booted up and got a message that says: Scandisk cannot read the last cluster on Drive C. This cluster is either damaged, or your system is not configured properly. Drive C may need to have a logical block addressing (LBA) enable to work properly, or its hard disk partition may be incorrectly marked as a non-LBA partition. Data loss can occur if your LBAsetting or disk partition type for this drive is misconfigured. Check your COmputer BIOS setup utility, or contact your computer manufactorer, or have your computer checked by a qualified computer hardware technician. If you are sure your drive is configured correctly, click continue to have a scandisk check drive C fir errors. <continue> <stop> I hit continue, it takes 5 min to scan, boots into windows, and now my computer runs really slow. I mean, so slow, the mouse lags, and it takes 10-20 seconds for the start menu to open.When I try to do something (play a song or movie) I get a message saying that I cannot write to drive C:. PLEASE, I have my senior project, my business stuff, and all the songs I have written and composed, that I cant afford to loose. PLEASE PLEASE SOMEONE HELP ME!

Go in the bios and set the hard disk on LBA as it suggested.

if the worst comes to the worst plug the HD back in to your friend's pc and copy all your important data across to his HD.

Whenever you download anything from the net or do work on your computer, the computer registers it in many forms some in cache i.e. All this information is store in your registry. When your computer boots, its first reference is your registry; your friend's computer as made reference to your registry that the BIOS in your computer is having difficulty understanding. Try deleting all you have downloaded and clean any reference to which you have deleted in your registry. get back to us

Marc: You may have a file problem here also. Your 98se uses Fat32 and his XP uses NTFS. His computer will read your Fat32 files but your computer won't read NTFS files.

My friend Dave told me the BIOS needs to be changed back probably? How do I clear my Registry? Isn't that RegEdit? Also, isn't there and option where I can go back to a certain Regestry Date. Like maybe a week ago? Isn't there also a way to convert from NTFS to FAT32? One other thing. I was looking around on my computer, and my dial up connections and and Networking Folder are gone? How do I get it back to make a dial up connection...?

it's always good to have another hd lying around for these types of emergencies. i keep a 6 gig formatted and all my programs loaded ready to roll, drivers etc. then when i have a problem, i make my hard drive a slave to it, back everything off, then just xcopy the 6 gig to my problem hd, takes a few minutes no loading drivers, just one click, then load all your data and your better than you were when you started. clean registry anyway.