Drive wont work with FDISK

OneBadLT123 · 01-19-2006, 12:08 PM

I took a harddrive out of a computer that was working into a computer i had laying around(once was working as well but i upgraded into a newer one and just took the harddrives out of it)

Well i installed the harddrive and its being found in the BIOS but i cant seem to get it to work, when i want to acess the C: it always says "Invalid drive specification" so i try to access FDISK via A: drive but everytime i try to access it i always get this error:

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Run-time error R6003
-Integer divide by 0

Also on first boot, i get this error as well:

Quote:

on first boot, I had a 164 memory error

And sometimes still get it when it boots

I dont know any other way to access this drive and be able to format it without having to try a diffrent computer. Can anyone point me into the right direction? The BIOS does see the drive, but i cant get it to see the partition and i want to format it as well. But FDisk(what i have always used for years) isnt working

Thanks

OneBadLT123 · 01-19-2006, 12:13 PM

Also i might add unless i have a boot disk in the A: the system will just keep rebooting itself once the BIOS has completly loaded.

Also is there a way to possibly use it without having to reinstall windows? Because there is still a lot of information on it that is valuable. It has XP loaded on it when i pulled it out(The power supply went out on the system, thats slower then the system im putting it in now)

western digital 80gig drive. Also i dont think its in FAT32 format, just NSTB

I have built some systems usually from parts, with a format and all, but just this one is giving me problems, and if i can save the OS on it so i can recover some information that would be great. I plan on formating it completly eventually

dai · 01-19-2006, 02:32 PM

do a repair install on the drive

**linderman** · 01-19-2006, 02:59 PM

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

OneBadLT123 · 01-20-2006, 01:24 PM

i got it fixed, thanks everyone!

01-19-2006, 12:13 PM	#2 (permalink)
OneBadLT123 Registered User Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 50 OS: Win XP SP2/Vista RC1	Also i might add unless i have a boot disk in the A: the system will just keep rebooting itself once the BIOS has completly loaded. Also is there a way to possibly use it without having to reinstall windows? Because there is still a lot of information on it that is valuable. It has XP loaded on it when i pulled it out(The power supply went out on the system, thats slower then the system im putting it in now) western digital 80gig drive. Also i dont think its in FAT32 format, just NSTB I have built some systems usually from parts, with a format and all, but just this one is giving me problems, and if i can save the OS on it so i can recover some information that would be great. I plan on formating it completly eventually __________________ AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice 2.2GHz 1.5 gb DDR400 (3 X 512) 128GDDR GeForce 6600GT GfxCard GIGABYTE GA-K8U Motherboard Last edited by OneBadLT123; 01-19-2006 at 12:15 PM.

01-19-2006, 02:32 PM	#3 (permalink)
dai Manager, Hardware Forums Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: west australia Posts: 56,614 OS: win 7 32x 64x rtm	do a repair install on the drive __________________

01-19-2006, 02:59 PM	#4 (permalink)
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01-20-2006, 01:24 PM	#5 (permalink)
OneBadLT123 Registered User Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 50 OS: Win XP SP2/Vista RC1	i got it fixed, thanks everyone! __________________ AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice 2.2GHz 1.5 gb DDR400 (3 X 512) 128GDDR GeForce 6600GT GfxCard GIGABYTE GA-K8U Motherboard