hard drive refuses to boot
 

Hi
While using software d/loaded to my Maxtor 20 gb HD
for the first time , my system crashed and I had to reboot.
Now after the windows 98 flash screen comes on the
system just hangs. I immediately removed the drive
and booted up with another freshly reformatted drive
running win 98 se. I am afraid to tinker with it before
being fully apprised of the possible danger involved
for fair of loosing my data.

Questions:
1) If I have been hit by a virus which has affected
the boot sector etc. What procedure should I follow
to remove it?

2) Will attaching the affected drive to my system as
a secondary master drive to view if my files are still
there harm it in any way

3) I have heard it is better to copy the entire affected
drive to a larger hd and work on the copy instead.
How is this done. The newly installed and formatted
drive is a Maxtor 80Gb.

Paul

hard drive refuses to boot
 

1. Unlikely if you are using an up to date anti virus program.

2. No

3. This is only required when there is a strong suspicion that the hard
drive is failing. There is no such indication of that from what you
described.

What do you want to do? If you want to just transfer files to the new drive
and clean off the 20 gb drive, then mount it and start transferring files.
If you want to continue using the 20 gb drive as your primary system, post
back for guidance. One thing to do is hit the Esc key and get rid of the
splash screen so you can see what is going on.

--
Regards


Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98
Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour
Knowledge Base Info:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo



"pablo" pabvs@ yahoo.com wrote in message ...
Hi
While using software d/loaded to my Maxtor 20 gb HD
for the first time , my system crashed and I had to reboot.
Now after the windows 98 flash screen comes on the
system just hangs. I immediately removed the drive
and booted up with another freshly reformatted drive
running win 98 se. I am afraid to tinker with it before
being fully apprised of the possible danger involved
for fair of loosing my data.

Questions:
1) If I have been hit by a virus which has affected
the boot sector etc. What procedure should I follow
to remove it?

2) Will attaching the affected drive to my system as
a secondary master drive to view if my files are still
there harm it in any way

3) I have heard it is better to copy the entire affected
drive to a larger hd and work on the copy instead.
How is this done. The newly installed and formatted
drive is a Maxtor 80Gb.

Paul

hard drive refuses to boot
 

You guys are the best. I connected the drive as
a secondary master and was able to transfer my
data safely. I was a bit apprehensive having
trashed my data on 2 previous occasions
Thanks
Paul
"Ron Badour" wrote in message
...
1. Unlikely if you are using an up to date anti virus program.

2. No

3. This is only required when there is a strong suspicion that the hard
drive is failing. There is no such indication of that from what you
described.

What do you want to do? If you want to just transfer files to the new
drive
and clean off the 20 gb drive, then mount it and start transferring files.
If you want to continue using the 20 gb drive as your primary system, post
back for guidance. One thing to do is hit the Esc key and get rid of the
splash screen so you can see what is going on.

--
Regards


Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98
Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour
Knowledge Base Info:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo



"pablo" pabvs@ yahoo.com wrote in message ...
Hi
While using software d/loaded to my Maxtor 20 gb HD
for the first time , my system crashed and I had to reboot.
Now after the windows 98 flash screen comes on the
system just hangs. I immediately removed the drive
and booted up with another freshly reformatted drive
running win 98 se. I am afraid to tinker with it before
being fully apprised of the possible danger involved
for fair of loosing my data.

Questions:
1) If I have been hit by a virus which has affected
the boot sector etc. What procedure should I follow
to remove it?

2) Will attaching the affected drive to my system as
a secondary master drive to view if my files are still
there harm it in any way

3) I have heard it is better to copy the entire affected
drive to a larger hd and work on the copy instead.
How is this done. The newly installed and formatted
drive is a Maxtor 80Gb.

Paul

hard drive refuses to boot
 

That method is tried and true--I use it to transfer data for every new
computer I set up. Thanks for the feedback.


--
Regards


Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98
Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour
Knowledge Base Info:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo



"Pablo" wrote in message
...
You guys are the best. I connected the drive as
a secondary master and was able to transfer my
data safely. I was a bit apprehensive having
trashed my data on 2 previous occasions
Thanks
Paul
"Ron Badour" wrote in message
...
1. Unlikely if you are using an up to date anti virus program.

2. No

3. This is only required when there is a strong suspicion that the hard
drive is failing. There is no such indication of that from what you
described.

What do you want to do? If you want to just transfer files to the new
drive
and clean off the 20 gb drive, then mount it and start transferring
files.
If you want to continue using the 20 gb drive as your primary system,
post
back for guidance. One thing to do is hit the Esc key and get rid of the
splash screen so you can see what is going on.

--
Regards


Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98
Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour
Knowledge Base Info:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo



"pablo" pabvs@ yahoo.com wrote in message ...
Hi
While using software d/loaded to my Maxtor 20 gb HD
for the first time , my system crashed and I had to reboot.
Now after the windows 98 flash screen comes on the
system just hangs. I immediately removed the drive
and booted up with another freshly reformatted drive
running win 98 se. I am afraid to tinker with it before
being fully apprised of the possible danger involved
for fair of loosing my data.

Questions:
1) If I have been hit by a virus which has affected
the boot sector etc. What procedure should I follow
to remove it?

2) Will attaching the affected drive to my system as
a secondary master drive to view if my files are still
there harm it in any way

3) I have heard it is better to copy the entire affected
drive to a larger hd and work on the copy instead.
How is this done. The newly installed and formatted
drive is a Maxtor 80Gb.

Paul