Hi

Hows it going...this one is for the true PC engineers out there.

I got a small nightmare on my hands....

I tried fitting a new 60gig Maxtor hard drive  (2nd drive for audio only) to my PC and 
all went well till I turned the PC back on again (it was all ok with the slave and 
master setup etc and I connected them in the right order on IDE1 on the motherboard 
etc, with power cables set up ok etc etc).

On bootup I hit delete till the Award CMOS bios screen came up, saw my original hard 
drive displayed as a Primary Master then selected Autodetect for the new Primary Slave 
HD.
I saved the setup then booted up again, but for some reason the CMOS doesn't save the 
settings and now it doesn't even detect my original HD. I just see a list on the 
screen that says i have no hard drives when there are clearly 2 connected to the 
motherboard.

I just get the message Primary Disk failure Insert System Disk (which i stupidly never 
made, but only because i never intended doing anything with the Primary Master). I 
didn't think this would happen.

Have I killed my PC?

Can I make a System Disk off another PC and use it to boot my spazzed machine (i use 
Win98SE if this makes any difference)?

Thanks for any help...

Dan 

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