quick update, yes the disk is fried. Ran a full scan using the Maxtor PowerMax utility and it duely told me that I have a failing disk and gave...
thanks for your help, I'll give it a go, but won't be until later this week. I'll let you know how it goes.
it's check disk that reporting the bad sectors so I guess these are software errors. I've pulled out my old disk now (maxtor) but I'll plug it in...
recable the ide (make sure the red strip is at the correct side of the connector) and check that the molex power cable is inserted fully, sounds...
my HD started to fail, I started to get bad sectors and "failed to read from xxxx errors" on chkdsk (+ other more obvious problems, like programs...
Thanks, yes that what I found, but for me it was an omen of worse things to happen (my HD was defective).
Hi Getting an "MBR Error 3" on boot and OS selector no longer appears. Running XP SP2. Noticed that I also got a RunList error on the main...
Ah I see, I've only got Acronis DD9 (It does everything I need), but unfortunately I only have boot from floppy support on the OS Selector (can I...
Hi I currently have XP (disk1) and Suse 10 (disk2) with Acronis DD9 OS Selector handling things nicely. I'd like to put Win 95 as an...
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