I accidentally zero filled my Maxtor hard drive with a Seagate diagnostic and utilities disk. Now my computer won't boot from the cd-rom with certain disks. I had to use the XP boot disks to get windows installed, but now when it starts up it gives me an error about files missing. The maxtor diaganostic disk wont boot.
Is there something that the harddrive is missing that i didn't do after the zero fill.
I have no idea why this is happening so i'm not even sure what specifics to give.
Its a dell 4100, 1Ghz pentium 3, with 512 ram. It has a dvd-rom and a cd-rw on one ide cable, and the maxtor 40GB harddrive formatted in FAT32 on the onther ide cable.
what i can't understand is why would a harddrive problem affect the way the cpu boots disks?
Is there something that the harddrive is missing that i didn't do after the zero fill.
I have no idea why this is happening so i'm not even sure what specifics to give.
Its a dell 4100, 1Ghz pentium 3, with 512 ram. It has a dvd-rom and a cd-rw on one ide cable, and the maxtor 40GB harddrive formatted in FAT32 on the onther ide cable.
what i can't understand is why would a harddrive problem affect the way the cpu boots disks?