I would boot from floppy, try and save whatever files are essential (take
some time with this: address lists for e-mail, cookies from the browsers,
your internet connection dns settings, etc ), and then try to fomat the
disk....  if it won't take a format, then try to fdisk the thing, and see if
that will work... if that fails then you have a nice paperweight for your
desk.  but before anything... check your cables...  I've had drive's act up
when their cables got loose (power down and ground yourself before touching
anything inside the box)

Frank B Smith


>I am working on a computer with a IDE maxtor drive. It would not load
>Windows 3.1 I ran scandisk on it and it got to 63% then hung up. I then
>tried it again getting to 58%. Could this mean the the hard is failing or
>is there a way to fix this?
>
>Harvey Rose
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>Which is worse, to spend more than you expected or less than you should?
>Zig Ziglar