This morning upon waking up and firing up my PC I got an error message
that said something along the lines of invalid boot sector replace
system disk (sorry I can't remember exactly what - I should've written
it down) so I stuck in a disk which then told me I had no harddrive.
On rebooting it then worked fine but I'm wondering if anyone here can tell me what it happened and how to stop it happening. It's not the sort of thing I need happening when I check my e-mail in the morning :P. I should probably also mention this is the second time it's happened.
I used to own a hard drive that wouldn't spin up if the temperature was below about 10-15 degrees. On a cold morning, I would have to leave the computer on for 5 minutes or so before the hard drive would be warm enough. It only tries to spin up on booting, so I would just press the reset button now and then until it managed to spin up. It was a noisy drive, so I could easily hear what was going on.
Cheers, Carl.
