BIOS detects the drive but windows98 won't

[chonkyfire]

I have a Western Digital WD400 that's been giving me problems.

For background info: I was hooking up my playstation 2 VGA box to my monitor when my PC crashed. Upon restarting my computer all i got was a blinking cursor in the top left hand portion of the screen after the first screen of bios ran. Since the 2nd page of bios failed to run, i assumed it was a motherboard problem.

I've been trying to hook up my HD to my parents PC to make sure it's ok and I can't get windows to detect it. When i install it as the primary master i get a "no system disk" error. When it's installed as a secondary master, windows doesn't detect it. Any ideas?
Thanks!

 

[edfair]

Are you attaching it to the same version of the OS? There is a difference between versions. Ed Fair
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[chonkyfire]

Actually, no. My drive is loaded with XP Pro and my parent's PC has windows 98. Should that make a difference if I'm connecting my drive as the primary master tho?

 

[keenming]

Your HDD may not be damaged. It is too early to tell. The fact that Win98 cannot detect the HDD could indicate that your HDD may have been formated under NTFS under which Win98 could not detect.
I think that it could be a problem in the moBo. You will have to enter into the MoBo setting to check the setting. The crash could have alter the settings.

 

[Roshi]

You may have lost the Master Boot Record on the disk. You can try fdisk /mbr, but read this first:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;69013&

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