re: general failure reading drive C Tuesday, December 30, 2003 at 5:12 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by trey (1964 messages posted) Sometimes this message relates to bad clusters on the hard drive. If you can boot the laptop with a boot floppy/startup disk. Run scandisk from the prompt... http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm On Tuesday, December 30, 2003 at 4:50 pm, Stephanie Kong wrote: >Today I tried to turn on my laptop and it said: > >General failure reading drive C >abort, retry, ignore, fail? > >I own a Sony Viao Laptop PCG-F430, Pentium III, Win 98. > >I would appreciate any help given--I´m currently stuck in the highlands of Guatemala, >so I´ll try to check my email as soon as possible. I didn´t drop my computer or anything. >It has been on my desk the whole time usually for the sole purpose of watching anime >so I don´t think that there is any physical disconnection between the hard drive >and the motherboard. The hard drive is also firmly connected to the drive. Thanks >again! Written in response to: general failure reading drive C (Stephanie Kong: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 at 4:50 pm) Responses to this message: re: general failure reading drive C (Stephanie Kong: Tuesday, January 6, 2004 at 2:51 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] general failure reading drive C (Stephanie Kong: Tue, Dec 30, 2003, 4:50 pm) re: general failure reading drive C (trey: Tue, Dec 30, 2003, 5:12 pm) re: general failure reading drive C (Stephanie Kong: Tue, Jan 6, 2004, 2:51 pm) re: general failure reading drive C (JmC: Tue, Dec 30, 2003, 9:25 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum