Keith, you might want to try Steve Gibson's SpinRite http://grc.com/spinrite.htm, it has helped me a few times now with bad drives. Perhaps it can benefit you as well. HTH
Peter Kaulback At 09:23 PM 1/17/2002 -0500, you wrote: >Speaking from personal experience of the past few days, I would look >very carefully at your hard drive. I was experiencing the same sort of >erratic bootup. Sometimes it would go fine, then again, it would stop >after the selection menu (I use that displayed for easy access to the >optional boots). Would press the reset and of course, would want to >start in safe mode. I would force it to normal by selection and up it >would come. Finally, the machine could not find one of the two drives >and would boot fine. Debugged the system by substituting another drive >that I knew was working. That was the problem. The one drive was quite >dead. Bought a new one of the same size (the trial was a little one) >and am back up. Course, lost LOTS of stuff, but the important things >were saved with the exception of some pictures. > >Now if anyone has any good tips for getting a drive that is hung to >spin, so that I can one time recover, it would be much appreciated. I >do have an external Kanguru drive that I have the dead drive in at the >moment trying to get it to spin. > >Keith Thompson ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
