Thanks for the reply Gerald.
In both cases the message "No fixed disks present" is
recieved.
John
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 2:20 AM
Subject: Re: PCWorks: Drive Problem
> 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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