It sounds like you have a bad harddrive. Are you familiar with the sticky insides of your pc? I agree with Hoopajoop. The only thing I can think of trying before telling you to junk the hard drive is to boot into DOS from a floppy, if you have a bootable floppy, and see if you can detect the C: drive and try and format it from there. Put the Windows CD in and boot. Press any key when it asks you if you want to boot from the CD.
I suspect that just after this if you press F8 repeatedly it will give you the boot selection menu and you can choose the Command Prompt. If this works it will probably position you on the CD drive. But here I'm just guessing. Failing that, try putting in another hard drive, even an old one, that you know is working and see if you can get any further in the installation process. If you can, then this hard drive is definitely kaput. The reason I askd you if you are familiar with the insides of your computer is that you should check the cables to make sure they are seated properly and that there is no damage to them.
If anyone has been in your machine you may also want to check the jumper settings. Barring jumper settings, and cable problems, i'd still say you have a bad harddrive. Good luck. And, the reason I suggested you try another HDD that you know is OK is precisely to check the cables and the rest of the system.
If that works then the only thing that could be at fault is your current HDD. Even then it may not be physically damaged. I suspect that you need to do what is called low-level formatting.
That is usually done at the factory and needs to be done before the normal formatting that we all know about. I've never had to do low-level formatting so I can't help you further there. Of course all this may not be cost effective in terms of your time and effort - except possibly to learn.
If you have a current warranty on this HDD you could get a replacement. But those are decisions for you to make. Let me also wish you Good Luck!!! Gunny said:. Click to expand Is it suppose to do that? Looks like your computer system itself is faulty - not your supposedly bad HDD.
If you can do that then the supposedly bad HDD is not really bad. It just got screwed up somehow when you tried to install Windows on it.
Then I would suspect either the power supply unit or the mobo of the faulty computer. We're a community of IT professionals committed to sharing knowledge. Our experts volunteer their time to help other people in the technology industry learn and succeed.
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At the boot menu choose Hard Disk tools, then select shdiag try latest version listed, then work backwards if they do not work. You can also try hutil. If these report no errors, but you still can not get windows to load, probably your MBR is messed up. If the drive won't pass diags, there's not much to hope for, so first thing is to run diags. And plugging it into another Computer which can read the Partition Type that you have. Again the NT4 and do not natively support USB devices so you'll need to install a driver for the external drive to work.
Look at the drive and see if you can see anything at all on it, if you can copy off your data and then wipe the Drive. If it fails in the computer remove it and test again in a different computer.
If it still fails there the Drive is Shot and needs replacing if it passes in the second computer the Drive Controller on the M'Board of the original Computer is shot and needs replacing. Robo it has an inbuilt SHDiag.. Man will have to shell out loads of money..
My parents will kill me.. Help anyone.. HELP :.
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