Hard Disk Controller Failure?

[Guest_imported]

I just recently sold a couple of Hard Drives (IDE 2.1Gb) with Windows 98 OS in them. However, when he tries to boot up his computer(s) with these Drives, it gives a message stating, "Hard Disk Controller Failure."

What is this, I have no clue what this means? These hard drives were pulls from two computers that I have and booted fine. Why aren't they working for him?

Joel

 

[teknikal]

The users who installed the hard drives are only using one hard drive, correct? If there is more than one hard drive in the system, especially if they're on the same IDE cable, then you've got to check jumper settings. Make sure the drive with the OS is the master.

Keep in mind too that putting a hard drive preloaded with an OS in a different system may cause hardware conflicts. Unless the systems have "identical" hardware, it isn't going to work.

If you're able to boot into safe mode, post back and I can show you a registry trick to get the hardware drivers reloaded...

tek