Hard drive seen by BIOS, but cant boot
Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2002 5:32 am
Hello. Anyone willing to help?
I have a 1Gig Athlon w/Win98SE and a 40 gig HD.
Problem: Hard Disk is no longer recognized at boot up.
Error - "Invalid media type reading drive C:"
It was working fine until yesterday. Now, BIOS detects the hard disk
fine. FDISK sees the HD also. SCANDISK failed - "cannot examine drive
C:". Booting to a floppy then trying to see HD dir doesnt work - same
error. Detaching HD and hooking it up to another PC was successful, all
the data is still intact. Scanning with latest definitions produced no
abnormal results, HD seems clean. Just be sure I checked the cables,
jumpers (stuff didnt change since before it was working fine). No
AntiVirus upgrades have taken place on that HD.
Trying to reinstall Windows failed, cant use the drive or some message
to that extent. Seems I may be able to do it if I chose to reformat the
drive, which I am not willing to do.
I am stuck with switching the HD into another system, at least for now.
Could this be a motherboard error? May be a BIOS upgrade will fix it?
This is a Award Software mother board and they charge for BIOS upgrade, I would like to avoid that. Please help. Just in case, here is my board info:
award modular bios V6.00PG version VDA42
AZ11E
06/26/2000-VT8363-VT686A6A6LMF09C-00
Thanks a lot in advance
Mike
I have a 1Gig Athlon w/Win98SE and a 40 gig HD.
Problem: Hard Disk is no longer recognized at boot up.
Error - "Invalid media type reading drive C:"
It was working fine until yesterday. Now, BIOS detects the hard disk
fine. FDISK sees the HD also. SCANDISK failed - "cannot examine drive
C:". Booting to a floppy then trying to see HD dir doesnt work - same
error. Detaching HD and hooking it up to another PC was successful, all
the data is still intact. Scanning with latest definitions produced no
abnormal results, HD seems clean. Just be sure I checked the cables,
jumpers (stuff didnt change since before it was working fine). No
AntiVirus upgrades have taken place on that HD.
Trying to reinstall Windows failed, cant use the drive or some message
to that extent. Seems I may be able to do it if I chose to reformat the
drive, which I am not willing to do.
I am stuck with switching the HD into another system, at least for now.
Could this be a motherboard error? May be a BIOS upgrade will fix it?
This is a Award Software mother board and they charge for BIOS upgrade, I would like to avoid that. Please help. Just in case, here is my board info:
award modular bios V6.00PG version VDA42
AZ11E
06/26/2000-VT8363-VT686A6A6LMF09C-00
Thanks a lot in advance
Mike