Boot from your Boot disk in A drive.  type Fdisk and then create a 
partition, after creating a partition your drive will appear..

Bill
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chilangisha B Changwe" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 12:39 AM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Hard Drive Issue


>I also tried to boot with a windows 98 boot disk but the only drive that
> was recognised was the CD drive and drive A! may this killDisk erases
> the drive beyond redemption.
>
> Chilangisha
>
> On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 11:56:28 -0800, "Peter" <[log in to unmask]> said:
>> When you ran KillDisk, it erased everything on the disk, including the
>> operating system. Why did you run KillDisk if you intended to keep the
>> drive? KillDisk is intended to remove all traces of files for security
>> purposes.
>>
>> In any case, you need to boot from your Windows CD and do a complete
>> install
>> of the OS. As part of the installation process, you will need to
>> Partition
>> and Format the disk. This is done by answering the questions in the
>> Windows
>> install process.
>>
>> Peter
>> ----------------------------------
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>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> I recently used KillDisk (free version) to wipe a primary hard drive.
>> Now,
>> when I re-boot it shows that the primary slave, secondary master and
>> secondary slave do not exist. At the bottom of the screen it says "Disk
>> Boot
>> Failure, Insert System Disk and Press Enter".
>>
>> What do I have to do to make the system recognize the hard drive so that
>> I
>> can reinstall Windows. Thank you all!
>>
>> Chris
>>
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