Unable to boot up after Power Failure

[Ola]

I have an older Pentium Computer running Windows 98. It was working just
fine until there was a power outage last night and now it will not reboot.
I tried using the Windows Starts here disk and it will not even allow that
to run. I just get a black screen verifying some hardware and showing the 2
CD Rom drives are present as well as the Floppy drive, and saying HDD error
on Prime Master and Prime Slave Drives. Is there anything I can do for this
problem?

 

[Mark F.]

I have an older Pentium Computer running Windows 98. It was working just
fine until there was a power outage last night and now it will not reboot.
I tried using the Windows Starts here disk and it will not even allow that
to run. I just get a black screen verifying some hardware and showing the
2 CD Rom drives are present as well as the Floppy drive, and saying HDD
error on Prime Master and Prime Slave Drives. Is there anything I can do
for this problem?

OT for Windows XP NG.

Since you are running Win 98 try booting from a recovery diskette. You can
download a utility to make one on a different PC from this site.
http://www.bootdisk.com/ If you can boot to a floppy or from the Windows
CDROM disk you system may only have a bad boot sector on the hard drive
(C.

See also:
alt.windows98
alt.comp.hardware

Mark

 

[Pegasus]

I have an older Pentium Computer running Windows 98. It was working just
fine until there was a power outage last night and now it will not reboot.
I tried using the Windows Starts here disk and it will not even allow that
to run. I just get a black screen verifying some hardware and showing the
2 CD Rom drives are present as well as the Floppy drive, and saying HDD
error on Prime Master and Prime Slave Drives. Is there anything I can do
for this problem?

This is a Windows XP newsgroup. Have you considered posting
in a Windows 98 newsgroup?

 

[Gary S. Terhune]

That's a Windows 98 issue, or at least one that will probably need Windows
98 savvy people to assist you. Please re-post your problem to:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion

 

[Ola]

Sorry about posting to the wrong group. Thanks for the info.

 

[Lil' Dave]

I have an older Pentium Computer running Windows 98. It was working just
fine until there was a power outage last night and now it will not reboot.
I tried using the Windows Starts here disk and it will not even allow that
to run. I just get a black screen verifying some hardware and showing the
2 CD Rom drives are present as well as the Floppy drive, and saying HDD
error on Prime Master and Prime Slave Drives. Is there anything I can do
for this problem?

Your citing of windows 98 would ordinarily make it not appropriate here.
But, your recant of the problem seems to be hardware issue, not an OS
problem. So, either inappropriate for either newsgroup, or, appropriate in
either OS newsgroup, or, appropriate in a hardware associated newsgroup
only. I personally won't quibble about such nonsense.

My opinion of the problem you describe is that either the cmos is corrupted,
OR, you have a physical hardware problem. If the PC has a watch type
battery, remove it for a few minutes, then, reinsert it in its original
orientation. If the cmos was not damaged, should default the bios to
original condition. If the cmos (on the motherboard, not the bios chip) is
damaged, will not correct the problem if associated. Remove and reinsert
the battery only when the PC is unplugged from the wall outlet.

If you can get to dos or 98, and still have some problems, then go to a
windows 98 newsgroup
Dave