Ok, yesterday I was planning on installing Win2k alongside my Win98 installation. I was using Norton System Commander, so I used its OS wizard, and while it was shuffling around partitions, my computer rebooted itself...when it wasn't supposed to, it was only like 45% through with what it was currently doing. I could boot into Win98 ok, but when I would open Explorer or anything that needed to look at drives (Save dialog, etc.) it would hang for about 2 minutes while the hdd was churning away, then it would come up finally.
To make a long story short, I eventually fdisk'ed & formatted the whole thing. When I go to run either Win98 or Win2k setup, it tells me "error writing to ide 0" type stuff. Now when I try to fdisk it, when I hit ESC to exit fdisk after making changes, it tells me it couldn't write the changes...same thing if I try "fdisk /mbr". How do I fix this darn thing?
I downloaded Western Digital's Data Lifeguard diagnostics (or whatever it is called). When I run it, it reads the drive for maybe a minute then it just sits there with no activity at all.
Please Help!
To make a long story short, I eventually fdisk'ed & formatted the whole thing. When I go to run either Win98 or Win2k setup, it tells me "error writing to ide 0" type stuff. Now when I try to fdisk it, when I hit ESC to exit fdisk after making changes, it tells me it couldn't write the changes...same thing if I try "fdisk /mbr". How do I fix this darn thing?
I downloaded Western Digital's Data Lifeguard diagnostics (or whatever it is called). When I run it, it reads the drive for maybe a minute then it just sits there with no activity at all.
Please Help!
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