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re: failure of HD to boot up
Friday, March 21, 2008 at 8:42 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by dhm
(946 messages posted)
The center of a hard drive is a bronze bearing. It has oil in the bronze (which
is somewhat porous). Eventually it dries up and produces bronze powder. Then one
day it jams.
Years ago a friend of mine from college, who is now a Dir MIS, called me just to
express his relief. In desperation, he removed the screws and took off the top of
the drive -- right where the warning message tells you not to -- and manually turned
the bearing. Then he tried to start it again and IT WORKED. So then he got everything
off.
The drives nowadays don't use ordinary screws.
My method is to treat it like a 1950s TV and slap in on the side. I once kept a
failing drive working for months by beating on it every morning when I booted up.
It finally failed to the point where I had to rouse myself out of my laziness and
go to the computer store near the mall and buy a new drive. I lucked into getting
it to start one more time so I transferred my data.
On Thursday, March 20, 2008 at 2:45 pm, delphcommon wrote:
>My brothers pc running 98SE fails to start, message that cannot find boot sector.
>I have tried the following to no avail, can anyone make any more suggestions, thanks.
>Unfortunately there are photos that have not been backed up and I therefore wish
>to avoid a full repartion or format if I can.
>
>I have tried loading boot files from 98 boot disk using commands researched on web:-
>SYS c: and SYS a: c: both have returned bad command.
>
>I have viewed partitions using fdisk and it says there are non, why this is the
case
>I have no idea as it has previously been working until this failure.
>
>I have slaved it to my own, running xp pro and whilst device manager recognises
the
>HD, I cannot view it or even locate it outside device manager. Also a virus check
>returned negative results.
>
>is the hard drive damaged? could partitions be deleted in any way without knowledge
>of user?
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- failure of HD to boot up (delphcommon: Thursday, March 20, 2008 at 3:45 pm)
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