|I had a strange problem with my Maxtor 5.2 GB hard drive last night.  I was
|playing a game (Forsaken) and when I quit the game, I immediately got a
blue
|screen with disk read/write error, press any key to continue.  Pressed  any
|key and the system is just hung up.  Drive light is on.  Press restart.  Go
|through post and then get hard disk failure message, "Press del to enter
|.... F1 to continue."  F1 eventually leads to insert a system disk message.
|At some point I get a message that there is no FAT table.  Boot from a
|floppy and try to look at C, nothing there.  Try to Fdisk ... get message -
|"no fixed disk present."  Restart and go into setup.  Go to IDE HDD auto
|detect tab and manually select the HD.  Restart and the system boots all
the
|way to a "GDI.exe missing, reinstall windows message".  Restart,  boot to
|safe mode.  Nothing is apparently wrong.  Restart again and all is well.


I would check my connections if I were you, maybe they are loose.


   ...James

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