>>Every time when I switch on the power, I will have to wait for a minute or
>>two as DOS boot, then it will tell me there is a HDD failure or something to
I have make a mistake here. Instead of HDD failure, it is D drive failure,
The whole thing actually looks like this:
D: drive failure
Press <F1> to RESUME
>>that effect and I have to press F1. When I pressed F1, MS DOS would continue
>>the boot and everything is ok. THis has been happening every time I switch
It has been really working fine except for the borthering 1 to 2 minutes I
have to wait and so I think I will pose the problem to the people who know
better.
>>on the power and for quite sometimes. Thank you.
>
>Something is incorrect in the BIOS or the harddrive can be damaged.
>I had the same problem with a secondhand driver I got from a friend (who
>had gotten it from his father that works at Ericsson) the drive died after
>only a few weeks of usage.
>(A reformat gave me around 50% of the drive size so it had to go)
>You might want to check out the BIOS setting for the drive, and try to
>"autodetect harddrive" in the BIOS (probably up on the right side)
I tried and two C and D drives are detected.
>And it isn't DOS that boots for 1 or 2 minutes. It's the BIOS that starts
>and checks so everything is alright, after you have pressed F1 DOS starts
>(not entirely true, the BIOS continues for a while afterwards).
>
>Does this happen after you make a CTRL-ALT-DEL reboot?
It does.
>i just thought of something, perhaps there can be some problem with
>master/slave settings on the drive. Has this problem arisen after a
>hardware change?
Yes, I crashed my original hard drive, which is now the D drive, and I sent
it for repair.
The repair man offered to give me another second-hand drive. I agreed and he
transferred all the data to this new drive, which is the C drive.
>//Bernie
Thank you.
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