a classic HD problem

skier · Post by **skier** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 3:34 pm

this is a little old school, in the original pentium days

i have a win '98 with pentium"s" 133MHz, 230W psu, and two hard drives, one primary Master : 1,600 MB, and one secondary Slave(i think) 400MB, when i boot upand it goes to the blue screen that checks drive C for errors, it doesn't do anything and a box pops up that says"Sandisk encountered a data error while reading the FAT on drive C, then i skip that, and it continues bootup, i login, then a box that says "Windows cannot read from Drive C, if it is a local drive, check the disk"pops up, and when i abort that, it goes to a blank screen, not black but the windows screen with no icons or start menu, how can i fix the error

DaIceMan · Post by **DaIceMan** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 5:51 pm

is this a new development, or has it been doing this for quite a while? Do you have OS installed on both drives? Have you check the jumpers and cable locations to make sure the "c drive" is actually the master? Have you tried removing the slave and setting the master to single drive?

I'll think about it more and reply with anything else that comes up, but these are the first things that came to mind.

KnightRid · Post by **KnightRid** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 5:29 am

did you try the fdisk /mbr to fix the master boot record?

Fdisk help - http://www.computerhope.com/fdiskhlp.htm

make sure you dont have anything important on the drive before you do that - it could remove access to erverything.

Have you tried it as a secondary hard drive in a syste, in an external case, used a disk recovery program, or ran chkdsk /f /r ?

chkdsk help - http://www.computerhope.com/chkdskh.htm

Let me know if any of that works for you or if you need other solutions.

Mike

skier · Post by **skier** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 6:55 pm

this computer has'nt ran since the late '90s i believ, so i have no clue what is on what, i think i'll put the slave in another computer running '98 and see if anything important is on it, then set the master to single, and if that doesn't work, i'll probably take a hammer to the both of 'em, and get like a 40 or 20 Gig HD for a couple dollars and call it good.