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hard drive problems - helpppp!!!

  • 20-11-2002 11:08am
    #1
    Cr8or
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 849 ✭✭✭


    I am having a problems with my hard drive. Ill give yea a breakdown of what happened in order. The pc was running on windows 2000 all updates and stuff done. I don’t know if this is a virus or what.

    1.the pc became sluggish while in use
    2.I reboot
    3.while booting up it says “error invalid disk” press any key to restart. (before the win2000 loader)

    I then tried it in another computer on its on it started booting up and then it says
    Cannot find “ntldr” (ntloader I guess)

    So I hook up another hard drive and set (the one with the problems) as a slave … when I get in to windows and try to read it says that the drive needs to be formatted … and there is no file system on it …

    Is there a virus that can do this..or would it be a problem with windows … or the hard the drive …

    Hopefully I can format and start from fresh .. has this happened to any one else before ...


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  • #2
    meglome
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,980 ✭✭✭meglome


    this exact same thing happened to one of the staff PC's in DNC recently. We were left with a drive with 68,000 file fragments on it after we tried to recover it. Haven't had a chance to try Nortons on it but it looks bad right now.

    We haven't the slightest idea what caused it either.


  • #3
    Cr8or
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 849 ✭✭✭Cr8or


    i contacted a m8 that i have in microsoft ... he thinks it mabe a sircam virus ...

    he said everytime your system reboots it eats more of the system away ( only thing is on the first reboot system / file system was gone )... then it hits the bios ...

    /me pulls out my hard drive asap for format


  • #4
    conor-mr2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 654 ✭✭✭conor-mr2


    Probably time to fdisk it and then create a new primary partition on the disk. Then format disk.


  • #5
    Cr8or
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 849 ✭✭✭Cr8or


    yea mabe


  • #6
    eddhorse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,783 ✭✭✭eddhorse


    yep i agree with conor in his MR2 , hes got the right idea:eek:


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  • #7
    BigEejit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,739 ✭✭✭BigEejit


    So I hook up another hard drive and set (the one with the problems) as a slave … when I get in to windows and try to read it says that the drive needs to be formatted … and there is no file system on it …

    You could get this by trying to look at the disk in a win 95/98 machine .... it will not be able to read a ntfs filesystem


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