The only obvious thing I can think of is to try this command now at the A: prompt-

FORMAT C:

or alternatively this command -

FORMAT C: /S

in the hope that the drive can still be formatted, after the zero fill option has 
(hopefully) completely blanked the disk.

Might not work; but it's the only alternative I can think of to assuming that you 
have a motherboard fault.

Ed







On Monday, April 23, 2007 at 6:38 am, Linda wrote:

>Ed, I got as far as the "Low level formatting", then when checking the status of 

>the FDISK I received the message: "No fixed disks present" then the "A" prompt.

>

>I'm going to stop with this.....I'm totally confused.

>

>Also, what I posted about info received is correct, even though it's contradictory.......

>

>I do thank you sincerely for your efforts to help me!!!