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Old September 24th 03, 11:41 PM
DaveW
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Sounds like the harddrive died. You can try repartitioning it and
reformatting it (yes, you'll lose the data on it), but it sounds like you
may be needing a new harddrive soon

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DaveW



"S.Boardman" wrote in message
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Help! My sister's computer (K6-450) has stopped working. The 2.4 Gb hard
drive is detected on boot by the BIOS, but will not boot. I've used a Win

98
floppy boot disk, and I can access C:. I used Partition Magic 6, and the

C:
I can see is the extended partition (originally D.
Where and why has the primary partition disappeared? If I try to recreate

a
C: primary partition will I lose all the data? I don't know how big the
partition were. Is there some other way of doing it? Or should I reformat
the drive (nothing critical on it - and was buggy) and reinstall

everything?

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Susan