At 12:18 AM 9/3/01 +0100, jfisher wrote the following:
>Can anyone advise please.
>Computer working OK on shut down.
>On restart later in the day the message "Pri Master HDD Error - run set up"
>came up.
>The floppy drive is still there but the only other drive is
>shown as Y - previously I also had C for hard and D for cd.
>I shut the power off hoping this might cure it but on restart
>a boot failure message came up instructing me to insert boot disk.
>After doing this and it booted up to some drivers a message came up saying
>drive is not recognised.
"Drive not recognized" is a typical error for two conditions:
1. loss of master boot record error
2. disk failure
For case 1. Use you boot floppy disk and type the command "fdisk /mbr" to
restore the master boot record. If this doesn't work then case 2 may be the
problem.
Run "fdisk /status" to check the status of the hard disk.
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Gerry Boyd
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