can't reformat hard drive

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john

I tried to upgrade my Win 98 to Win 2000 Prof. I worked
fine for two days then I had problems so I tried to
reformat my hard drive and I get the error message 1780.
IDE Primary Channel Master drive error and 0162. Equipment
configuration Error. Fdisk is not working, it ge the
message error reading fixed disk.How can I get my system
up and running with win 98 second again?
 
D

Dave Patrick

Are these system bios error messages? If so then it appears some hardware
has failed.

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Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]
Microsoft Certified Professional [Windows 2000]
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:
| I tried to upgrade my Win 98 to Win 2000 Prof. I worked
| fine for two days then I had problems so I tried to
| reformat my hard drive and I get the error message 1780.
| IDE Primary Channel Master drive error and 0162. Equipment
| configuration Error. Fdisk is not working, it ge the
| message error reading fixed disk.How can I get my system
| up and running with win 98 second again?
 

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