hard drive headache

[phatcat]

i have xp/sp2 on my pc and it crashed one day while i was playing a game and
my media player at the same time. when i rebooted i got a message saying
"invalid boot disk". i got the boot disks from microsoft and ran them from my
floppy drive, but when i get ready to recover xp or reinstall it, it tells me
no hard drive is found. is there a way i can fix this error without having to
replace my hard drive???

 

[db]

if you can boot to
the "repair / recovery
console" and get
to the disk prompt,

then you can run
the following commands>:

chkdsk /p
fixboot

then exit and try
rebooting normally.

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[Gerry]

phatcat

Is the BIOS recognising the hard drive?
http://www.pcguide.com/ref/mbsys/bios/bootSequence-c.html

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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