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Happy Go Lucky
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Hello,
alrite, I've broken my hardrive, ie it won't format now, installing win98 it says unusable media track error etc. & in win2000 it just stays on 0% while trying to format and doesn't do anything.
I was messing around with the computer before hand, I increased the fsb by 1, o/c my graphics card, put up ram settings, ran lots of 3dmark & sandra benchmarks, installed 2 case fans.
I was about to go bed when I noticed the computer rebooted instead of shutting down, I tried a reboot but when loading win2000 it said a vital file was missing, as I have a dual-boot win98/win2000, in the 2nd reboot I tried tried win98, and was told the mouse was missing, it wasn't, I couldn't get the mouse to work, so I rebooted win98 only to get a blank screen, the 3rd time I couldn't even get to the screen for the o/s choice, just got disk error.
I tried to recover booting off a win2000 disk , first using the console but I couldn't get a listing of the c: etc to try to get access to my documents. I used a emergengy repair disk of a another computer, but was told the win2000 was corrupted and must be re-installed.
Is it possible that the harddrive wasn't adequatly cooled, as the disk was at the bottom off the 3.5 inch cage, with only small drill holes.
Guess what the shop that built the computer has closed down,
Therefore I bombarded ibm with emails and got a amusing reply from general enquires reminding me that the first point of call was the re-seller, when I had just told them that the shop had closed down.
What pisses me off, that the drive was only 6 months old (IBM 60GXP 7200rpm 41GB) the best h/d I have.
I have return it now but I was told I should run a drive fitness test , I'm downloading it now, but not sure if it will examine the faulty drive as a slave.
Sorry to be such a bore, but had to get it of me chest
alrite, I've broken my hardrive, ie it won't format now, installing win98 it says unusable media track error etc. & in win2000 it just stays on 0% while trying to format and doesn't do anything.
I was messing around with the computer before hand, I increased the fsb by 1, o/c my graphics card, put up ram settings, ran lots of 3dmark & sandra benchmarks, installed 2 case fans.
I was about to go bed when I noticed the computer rebooted instead of shutting down, I tried a reboot but when loading win2000 it said a vital file was missing, as I have a dual-boot win98/win2000, in the 2nd reboot I tried tried win98, and was told the mouse was missing, it wasn't, I couldn't get the mouse to work, so I rebooted win98 only to get a blank screen, the 3rd time I couldn't even get to the screen for the o/s choice, just got disk error.
I tried to recover booting off a win2000 disk , first using the console but I couldn't get a listing of the c: etc to try to get access to my documents. I used a emergengy repair disk of a another computer, but was told the win2000 was corrupted and must be re-installed.
Is it possible that the harddrive wasn't adequatly cooled, as the disk was at the bottom off the 3.5 inch cage, with only small drill holes.
Guess what the shop that built the computer has closed down,
Therefore I bombarded ibm with emails and got a amusing reply from general enquires reminding me that the first point of call was the re-seller, when I had just told them that the shop had closed down.
What pisses me off, that the drive was only 6 months old (IBM 60GXP 7200rpm 41GB) the best h/d I have.
I have return it now but I was told I should run a drive fitness test , I'm downloading it now, but not sure if it will examine the faulty drive as a slave.
Sorry to be such a bore, but had to get it of me chest
