Hard Drive Not Recognized

[Guest]

Hello all,

I have a Pentium 3 PC with an internal Seagate Barracuda hard drive. The
first problem I encountered was the computer not booting up. I ran ERD
Commander 2005 and it fixed that problem, however, now the computer does not
recognize the hard drive (partitioned into two). The only thing that works is
using ERD Commander 2005 to get to a DOS prompt; my internet connection no
longer works either. Does anyone know of a software or process that can
repair this issue? If I had my choice of which problem to encounter, I would
choose the PC not botting up because the hard drive was recognizable then. If
no one is able to assist this way, if you could please tell me how to google
this problem (e.g., hard drive unrecognizable, etc.), as I think I have
searched every which way, this would help greatly as well.

Thank you in advance,
Tammy

 

[John]

Hello all,

I have a Pentium 3 PC with an internal Seagate Barracuda hard drive. The
first problem I encountered was the computer not booting up. I ran ERD
Commander 2005 and it fixed that problem, however, now the computer does not
recognize the hard drive (partitioned into two). The only thing that works is
using ERD Commander 2005 to get to a DOS prompt; my internet connection no
longer works either. Does anyone know of a software or process that can
repair this issue? If I had my choice of which problem to encounter, I would
choose the PC not botting up because the hard drive was recognizable then. If
no one is able to assist this way, if you could please tell me how to google
this problem (e.g., hard drive unrecognizable, etc.), as I think I have
searched every which way, this would help greatly as well.

Thank you in advance,
Tammy

ERD commander is a powerful utility and can recover data - at least so
the web page says, I haven't tried it. Perhaps it can make the C:
partition the active partition (assuming that is where your OS's
bootstrap files reside).

Failing that go to Seagate's website and download a hard drive checking
utility to install onto a floppy.


But ultimately, given a P3 era comp, what is most important to you?

Get your computer into a working condition again?

-or-

Recover personal data on the bad (or screwed up) Seagate hard drive?

John