Hi Folks, Could do with some assistance with the following - Kids were on the net the other day and got a blue screen. Had to hard switch off. when switched back on got disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter. Have checked BIOS, HD not detected. Have used Win98 floppy boot disk - when it boots its shows message saying there is no C drive. My hard drive is in a removable tray. When I put my other hard drive (same OS system) in it boots ok. That should prove MB and MB connections ok. Connections on first HD look good. I (don't know why) suspect a possible virus, but don't know how to check the drive for viruses if the HD can not be detected. Any ideas greatly appreciated - as usual that HD had a lot of info on it that I don't want to loose. Thanks in advance for any comments. JerryH

Hi JerryH, I would connect both hard drives in this case. It could be a virus, hard drive failing, OS problem, etc. I would connect the one that works to be the c: drive and connect the damaged drive to be the slave (d: drive). Then login and copy all the data you need from that old drive into the other drive. This will save you a lot of headaches. If you need help in this, email me or post back for others to reply. Hope that helps. Kevin.

JerryH: I would like to suggest a few more steps to Kevin's procedure. Before you reconnect the "bad" drive as slave, make sure you have a good virus scanning program with the latest virus signatures, running on the "good" drive. In that way if there is a virus on the other drive there is much less of a chance of the "good" drive getting infected from the "bad" drive.

hello your problem is useing a 98 boot disk with m.e use m.e bootdisk and at the a:sys c: click enter and after it says system transferd reboot. try the things in this link m.e wont start http://computing.net/windowsme/wwwboard/forum/30687.html

Thanks everyone. Will try those over the next couple of days - too busy tonight and tomorrow. Will get back and let you know. Kevin, I'm assuming that you mean that the good drive set as master will be able to read the bad drive set as slave, even though the bad drive won't boot? Certainly hope so! Thanks again, and any more info or responses will be most welcome. JerryH

You may want to use fdisk to check to see if the c: drive partition is still in tact and is set to active. Also, if you do have a boot sector virus, try fdisk /mbr.