[Ham-Computers] disk boot failure

Sun, 17 Aug 2003 17:58:34 -0500

Well it was a bad sector on the HD, but went into there and luckily
recovered everything, sure is bad when I didnt check the computer out before
a major contest and boot the computer up 2 hrs before to discover this,
guess thats what I get for not checking everything out 2 days ahead of time.

Thanks for all the responses,

73,
Brian

KA5BKG

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jay Eimer" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2003 4:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Ham-Computers] disk boot failure

> Yes.  It's telling you it can't find the boot sector on your hard drive.
> First possibility is that something has come loose, and your hard disk is
> not "talking".  Pop the case and re-seat all the connectors to the hard
> drive.
>
> Second possibility is that the boot sector of the disk has been damaged,
and
> is no longer readable.  In that case, put in a Win95 boot disk (floppy)
and
> you'll get a DOS prompt, but you'll be able to access the rest of the hard
> disk.  The disk may not be recoverable, but the files and programs on it
> should be.  Alternately, you can plug a second hard disk into the
machine -
> that has a good operating system install on it - and set it to the
"master"
> disk.  Then you can boot from the new one and copy files from the old to
the
> new.
>
> Third possibility is that the disk has catestrophically failed - as in
isn't
> turning anymore (motors and bearings do wear out, you know).  If that's
> happened, even if the boot disk gets the system up, you still won't be
able
> to salvage anything of the drive.
>
> Most likely case is a loose connection, though, so start there.
>
> Jay
> KD5WLX
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brian K. Gaskamp" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2003 12:28 PM
> Subject: [Ham-Computers] disk boot failure
>
>
> > I'm trying to get a computer running over here that has several good
> > programs on it, running Win 95, and I'm getting a message saying, Disk
> boot
> > failure, insert system disk and press enter.
> >
> > Is this telling me I need a Win 95 boot disk to recover something?
> > Never have seen a message like this in this particular computer.
> >
> > 73,
> > Brian
> >
> > KA5BKG
> >
> >
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