There's no reason (yet) to assume the HD is toast. It may well have
recoverable files if placed in another machine.
This sounds more like a motherboard problem (IDE Controller?).
What's the make and model of the computer?
Have you tried safe mode? (Probably won't help, but worth a try).


Dianne wrote:
> Hi Hugh, PHogan, Scott and John,
> You guys are great. OK. Let me tell you what I have tried.
> 1. I checked all the cables and made sure there were good connections
> (floppy, cd, and hd).  All seemed ok there.  I went to the BIOS and under
> IDE CONFIGURATION:  it said:  IDE Controller-Both,  Hard Disk
> Pre-Delay-Disabled, Primary IDE Master:Samsung SV4084H, Primary IDE Slave:
> Samsung CD-R/RW Drive, Secondary IDE Master: SS06-Samsung DVD  Under POWER
> it said Hard Drive Enabled.  So I am assuming that all this means it is
> recognizing the Hard Drive.  I attempted to boot some other disk (a windows
> 98 boot disk), no go, as well as re-tried the Windows Me Boot disk, no go.
>
> I am going to hate to tell these folks that they have lost everything on
> the
> HD, is that what you think it is?  I have a recovery CD-Rom as well, I just
> cant get it to recognize it, I changed the BIOS to read the CD first,
> but no
> go there either.  Yes, I changed them back.
> Thanks for all the help, if you can think of anything else I can try,
> let me
> know.
> Dianne

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