re: hard drive problem(driver) Saturday, May 9, 2009 at 9:11 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by gewg_ (3932 messages posted) dhm wrote: [...]Everyone is apalled at this but it works for me. Beat up your computer. That is, when it starts, tap the drive (or slam the whole computer) and it will shake the bearing enough to get it started. (My computer has dents on it.) [...]open the case and try tapping the drive as it boots up. If that works you have a dying bearing but you can make it live long enough to copy the information over. 8-)) Something else that often works (and doesn't present the danger of having the head bang into the media surface) is to do a "warm boot" after the cold boot fails. If the shaft isn't completely stuck but is just sluggish and the rotational speed of the platters isn't quite enough at the end of POST, sometimes just a few extra seconds does the trick. Doing the 3-finger salute at that point (Ctrl-Alt-Del) *can* make the difference. Written in response to: re: hard drive problem(driver) (dhm: Saturday, May 9, 2009 at 8:27 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] hard drive problem(driver) (William: Sat, May 9, 2009, 6:18 pm) re: hard drive problem(driver) (dhm: Sat, May 9, 2009, 8:27 pm) re: hard drive problem(driver) (gewg_: Sat, May 9, 2009, 9:11 pm) re: hard drive problem(driver) (Ed: Sat, May 23, 2009, 11:31 am) Windoze won't load (Sketchy details provided) (gewg_: Sat, May 23, 2009, 3:12 pm) re: hard drive problem(driver) (Kiwi: Tue, Jun 9, 2009, 3:23 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