Hey All!!
I'm having some trouble reformatting an ancient packard bell computer. I failed to make sure the A drive functioned properly before formatting.
So I installed a known good drive, and it shows up in the BIOS as installed, and I get the light on at startup, but the drive doesn't spin, and when I try to access the disk through the command prompt (I formatted C as bootable) I get the message "Not Ready Reading Drive A, Abort, Retry, Fail?"
Should I try another drive? Seems to me this other one I'm using doesn't work well either.
But I'm wondering if it has anything to do with the fact that I made C: bootable?? I tried disabling the HD and booting right off of A, but I got the message "Insert bootable media in appropriate drive" or something to that effect, and that was when I had my win 98 boot disk in.
If someone could point me in the right direction that would be great!
Thanks!
I'm having some trouble reformatting an ancient packard bell computer. I failed to make sure the A drive functioned properly before formatting.
So I installed a known good drive, and it shows up in the BIOS as installed, and I get the light on at startup, but the drive doesn't spin, and when I try to access the disk through the command prompt (I formatted C as bootable) I get the message "Not Ready Reading Drive A, Abort, Retry, Fail?"
Should I try another drive? Seems to me this other one I'm using doesn't work well either.
But I'm wondering if it has anything to do with the fact that I made C: bootable?? I tried disabling the HD and booting right off of A, but I got the message "Insert bootable media in appropriate drive" or something to that effect, and that was when I had my win 98 boot disk in.
If someone could point me in the right direction that would be great!
Thanks!
