Help! Lost C drive

[Terilyn]

Hello,

I turned on a computer here today that was working fine yesterday. After not being able to find anything bootable, it tells me to put a startup disk in A drive, which I do. It then tells me that Windows has determined that Drive C does not contain a valid Fat or Fat32 partition.

fdisk /mbr informs me that there are no fixed disks present.

Any ideas on what has happened here? And, what I might do to fix it?

PC100; AMD K-6; 500 MHz; SIS530 Chipset...

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[Paleo Pete]

Sounds like either the hard drive died or you picked up a virus somewhere.

Open the case and make sure the cables are connected and fully seated.

Try booting to an emergency boot disk that you hopefully made when installing your virus scanner. See if it finds anything...

Then go into BIOS and check to see if all the hard drive parameters are correct (long shot).

Then if fdisk still gives the "no fixed disks present" message, I'd suspect the hard drive or controller died.



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