sara

Neither of my internal drives are booting up. I'm on Win2ooo Professional.

I've tried both an Emergency Repair Disk and a Win98 boot disk, but it says that there is no previous Windows OS on the computer. I had been trying to fix my second internal drive (D) which was not booting. I left the PC on last night and started a disk Defrag from the Win2ooo System Tools. I woke up this morning and neither drives will boot, even though C was working last night.

I've tried many many things and it appears to be a boot error, or FAT error or directory error-- something is scrambled, but the data is still on the drive.

Yesterday I recovered some of the date from D using PC Inspector, but I can't do that now since both drives are failing to boot.

The same thing happened with this drive last week but somehow scandisk's "autofix" was able to repair the bad sectors/directories/file system on D.

I'm on Win2000 with a 1 gig AMD processor. The C drive is 10gig and the slave D
drive is a 40gig Maxtor internal drive. I have a total of about 500 MB of RAM. The
file system is FAT32.

I just spent 5 days recreating this second drive with all the sofware and Windows
settings as well as Outlook accounts and settings.

I have a Win2k AND a Win98 boot disk, as well as the CD for Norton Systemworks (sort of useless). I also have already been to the Recovery Console and I hit a brick wall since it cannot see/read drive C or D.

*Please* help....

Thanks~
sarah

PS: I also have all the good spyware utilities as well as Norton Virus Scan.

SPEEDO

Look in the bios and see if the drives are recognized in there. Post back.