okay i have a packardbell i dont know wut version but it has windows 95..first tha problem was bios..my brothers son did somethin and now i had to put a password..so i opened tha computer and took off tha battery fo tha memory and i put it back..now tha computer is messed up..i turn on my computer..and it starts..its goes tot tha windows 95 screen..then it goes back tot ha startin screen..it says run scandisk..press any key to start..i press it..it says scandisk.exe was not found or was canceledd try rundisk..press any key to start..i press a key..then it runs..and it then it says sector not found reading drive C..wut do i do???? help me please......

Once you remove the battery to clear the CMSO memory, you need to go into the BIOS setup and set everything to work correctly. Because all the previous settings have been cleared. (I hope you made a note of the way everything was previously set) Best of luck. RichGu

Yeah, the HD may be configured wrong in cmos. Hopefully there'll be an AUTO setting. If not, or if you can't figure it out, post back a description of the various HD settings. You may need to manually enter the settings.

i think im out of luck i dont have tha bios settings..is there any other way???

to davan caps..various hd settings? meaning tha settings i have now?

I'm not sure how your cmos is set up. But you should be able to set the HD to AUTO, in which case the bios will read the information it needs from the firmware on the HD each time it boots. Another option, usually with older computer without the AUTO setting, is to manually enter the cylinders, heads, and sectors per track. There usually were other enteries such as precomp and landing zone but those usually didn't matter with IDE drives. That information is found on the HD label. Above 16,383 cylinders the manual setting usually wouldn't work. The way a HD is configured in cmos determines how it is partitioned. If a HD is partitioned, formatted and installed with an OS and then that cmos configuration is changed (maybe because the battery died) problems can occur. Sectors will not be where they're supposed to be. The HD may not even boot because the boot sector is lost. Most bios' will default to AUTO if the cmos is reset. So even if the HD configuration in cmos is lost, the computer will still boot. But if the HD wasn't originally configured as AUTO or your bios didn't have that option you may have problems finding the correct configuration. You'll just have to go into the cmos see how the drive is defined. You may need to download a manual for the motherboard it you can't figure it out. Of course the HD configuration may have nothing to do with your problem, but it's something you need to check.