Computer help

[Hellspawn2]

Ok here is the deal last night i decide to add another HD on my puter so i did the normal procedure turned everything off ripped everything off and add the HD. When i finished i put everything back together powered it up and went through the HD setup. After it finished the format and partition and i started to copy win98 from my master HD to the new slave drive. All of a sudden my computer went blank and loss power. After trying for 5 minutes and to get the stupid thing to work i hit the reset button on the puter and bamn power. Now here is the problem when i start it up it hangs on opening screen? I see the normal bios kick on i see my vodoo card then my blue HP screen and then it stops there. I don't hear either HD's moving are they both toast? I didn't have any storm come through and i have all my equipment plug into power strips and neither of those needed to be reset. Anyone have any ideas?

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thanks for the help
Hellspawn2

[2gapa]

Sounds like you corrupted the Win98 installation on the master drive. Get you win98 install floppy and boot to it and select command prompt. You should be able to check out the drive contents this way.

[krazie1999lc]

sounds about right 2gapa . hellspawn , you really ahould use some drive cloning software to do copying like that ..... norton ghost immeadiately comes to mind .... it will copy an image of your surrent hd to the new one (it will work exactly as the old one did before ) you did check the jumpers on the hd's for proper master/slave settings right ??

[Hellspawn2]

Originally posted by krazie1999lc
sounds about right 2gapa . hellspawn , you really ahould use some drive cloning software to do copying like that ..... norton ghost immeadiately comes to mind .... it will copy an image of your surrent hd to the new one (it will work exactly as the old one did before ) you did check the jumpers on the hd's for proper master/slave settings right ??


Yeah i probably should have went the ghost route now that you mentioned it. Yeah i did check the setting on both drive and they are config correctly. As it stands now i took everything back apart then set it up like before with 1 drive and i am getting the same results. It just hangs on the blue HP screen.:(

[krazie1999lc]

Are you able to boot up with a floppy ? if you are able to , can you see the c: in dos ?? does your bios detect the drive ? just in case also check the ide cable on the motherboard sometimes the become unseated (happened to me 2 days ago )

[Hellspawn2]

Originally posted by krazie1999lc
Are you able to boot up with a floppy ? if you are able to , can you see the c: in dos ?? does your bios detect the drive ? just in case also check the ide cable on the motherboard sometimes the become unseated (happened to me 2 days ago )


Ok i will give it a try tonight and let u know what happen.

[krazie1999lc]

any updates hellspawn ??

[Hellspawn2]

Nope no luck there i think i may have found the problem i think the fuse is blown. On the back there is a red switch that has 230 and 120 i assume that these are the voltage correct? Well when its switch to 230 i have no power what so ever but when its 120 it starts then hangs up.

[Hellspawn2]

contined...

so with it being switched to the lower voltage i don't think there is enough power going through to start everything up?

[quaddawg]

No that doesn't sound right. I'm banging my head here for you, but sounds rather ominous, like Motherboard problems, you can't get into the CMOS at all??

[cavegoon]

Originally posted by Hellspawn2
Nope no luck there i think i may have found the problem i think the fuse is blown. On the back there is a red switch that has 230 and 120 i assume that these are the voltage correct? Well when its switch to 230 i have no power what so ever but when its 120 it starts then hangs up.

that switch is to switch your power supply to accept 120VAC or 230VAC mains power... if you are in north america, it should always be on 120...

try pressing [escape] when the windoze spash screen comes up... it will clear the screen, and will let you see the underlying dos stuff, and any potential errors that are popping up (like boot sector not found, etc).

post what you see the pooter doing on the dos level... will help figure out what's wrong...