I have an 80gb maxtor drive with windows xp pro installed the other day my backup battery went dead turned off my comp and when i went to turn it back on it brought up "missing operating system" I have tons of valuable info on that harddrive and connot loose it!!! I've tried running chkdsk it tells me to use scandisk and then it says i can't use scandisk cause the drive is a network drive
You didn't lose the Drive. You lost the Bios settings. (Which are stored in RAM.) This can be easy enough to fix. FIRST!!! Replace that dead battery! Turn your machine on, and follow the manufacturers Specs to redo the Bios settings. Usually, this is to hit either "Delete" or F1, F5 or whatever key(s) while booting up. MOST times you can simply reload the factory Default settings. The procedures depend on the manufacturer of YOUR machine. Someone else may know more. But, this is how it works on my HP Pavilion. Good luck!
well i knew right off the bat it wasn't the bios but i tried it ne way and it didn't work... i think i need a bootable cd or floppy with a scandisk prog on it but i haven't had ne luck finding one. i would use the orginal windows xp cd but my mom being the dumbass that she is screwed up the cd trying to clean it with amonia
You could always take your HD and put it in another computer that has a burner to get the stuff you need. Or install a new HD in your computer and copy the stuff you need off your old one on to your new one.
not simple... dos's chkdsk and scandiskdo not work i've already tried 2 dos versions 6.0 and dos doctor
its simple to make a boot disk, format any floppy and select create an MS-DOS Startup Disk, access the command prompt, format the hard drive, boot from floppy, install operating system
