Re: hard drives dying

JB

Does it boot off a regular Win 98 boot diskette even?.. if it does, you are
not using the correct procedure to make a MemTest 86 diskette..

--
Mike Hall
MVP - Windows Shell/User


"JB" <someone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:O9GwEX39FHA.160@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi. Brick wall every step.
> HD is Maxtor. Downloaded and put on floppy as instructed but when I
> reboot, it says incorrect system disk, remove and press any key.
> :(
>
>
>
> "David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote in message
> news:eslGaw09FHA.3928@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> From: "JB" <someone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> | Hello.
>> | Can a virus render a hard drive 'useless'? So that you can't boot
>> WindowsXp
>> | or recover with any bootdisks?
>> | And can it be totally undetected?
>> |
>> | My laptop suddenly switched itself off and after numerous attempts just
>> | comes up with
>> | "No hard drive detected"
>> | A week later my son's tower PC (winK) was playing up, then one day
>> would not
>> | reboot, saying disc sector corrupt. We had to pay an arm and a leg to a
>> tech
>> | to recover all his work and get a new hard drive.
>> | Now my beloved PC is gone weird. Everything to do with start-up,
>> taskbar and
>> | system is taking around 10 minutes. It's not hanging, it's like in slow
>> | motion.
>> | It takes 40 minutes to reboot.
>> | I am paranoid that it's also going to go. BUT the laptop was very old,
>> my
>> | son's PC not as well taken care of, Both those machines were running
>> McAfee
>> | 9 but new subscription were 2 weeks overdue.
>> | Whereas my machine is a year and a half old, it is treasured and has
>> ALL
>> | the right protection, McAfee security suite, SpyDoctor, MSAntispy,
>> (which
>> | have all come up with 0 when doing scans)
>> | I can't believe that it can be coincidence.
>> | But if I have all this protection, how can it be a virus!!?
>> | Any advice please,
>> | Jen
>> |
>>
>> Go to the hard disk manufacturer's web site and download their diagnostic
>> software
>> respective to your hard disk. After the test, you will know if the hard
>> disk is bad or
>> not..
>>
>> Quantum/Maxtor - PowerMax
>> http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/downloads/powermax.htm
>>
>> Western Digital - Data LifeGuard Tools (DLGDiag)
>> http://support.wdc.com/download/
>>
>> Hitachi/IBM - Drive Fitness Test (DFT)
>> http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm
>>
>> Seagate - SeaTools
>> http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/
>>
>> Fujitsu - Diagnostic Tool
>> http://www.fcpa.com/download/hard-drives/
>>
>> Samsung - Disk manager
>> http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/utilities/shdiag.htm
>>
>>
>> --
>> Dave
>> http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
>> http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm
>>
>>
>
>


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