Drew
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Registered: 24th Nov 01
Location: County Durham
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ok, pc wouldnt boot up this morning
the bios detects the harddrive and everything seems to be ok
now on boot up, it gets the the part where it looks for boot from a floppy, then after that i just get a blank screen with cursor flashing at top left
tried the harddrive in another pc as a SLAVE drive, and for some reason it stopped that pc from booting up too, same thing happened, removed it and booted fine
when ive tried to reinstall windows on it, it was the partitions are 'unknown'
is it dead? is it format time soh, or can it be recovered?
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drunkenfool
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Registered: 7th Feb 03
Location: Hereford Drives: Audi R8 V8
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have u tried booting the PC from a floppy? Change the settings in the BIOS too so it boots from floppy before the HDD. You should be able to run Fdisk and reformat and partition it if there is no alternative.
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Drew
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Registered: 24th Nov 01
Location: County Durham
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yeah tried booting from floppy - no luck - doh
i just dont understand how it can stop a healthy pc from booting it its just a slave drive on is 
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drunkenfool
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Registered: 7th Feb 03
Location: Hereford Drives: Audi R8 V8
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have you enable virus detection in your bios? It might be a boot sector virus?
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