HI. I haven't been back for so long because my home computer was having issues....I dumped it and everything is fine with that....As for the Dell I had Hard Drive problems with, I feel even more lost now.
I did all of the keyboard combinations that were suggested (alt + e, etc.). When I booted up again after that, the screen said "Primary Drive 1 Not Found--Press F1 to continue or F2 for SetUp. I pressed F1 and Windows 2000 loaded just fine....(I thought I dumped it). All my stuff was still there so I did disk cleanup and then started to defrag, it was about half finished when the computer just shut off. I couldn't turn it back on, so I opened it and popped out the battery for a few seconds, put it back and the computer started up with all the same wording as above--Primary Drive 1 Not Found......then it wouldn't find any drives...I would give up for the day. The next day the same thing would happen but Windows loaded after hitting F1 like it asked.....10 minutes later it will shut off or just froze. I even got online for about 10 minutes yesterday with my home page loaded on IE!! I have been doing this every day since my last message on here. I only had to do the battery thing once. Today a blue screen comes up before Windows finished loading---It says something about restarting the computer, if that happens again, check for viruses or run CHKDSK /F ---I can't do either of those things. Sometimes when I start it and hit F2 or F12, it says Keyboard error.
I downloaded to a floppy
TestDisk 6.3 from Softpedia.com. That is supposed to detect your hard drive and fix errors....Didn't do anything, didn't even load or whatever. It started to spin and then stopped. I probably didn't put it onto the floppy right. Also, when I was doing the defragging, I scheduled a Check Disk at next start up---that came on 2 days later!!! During that, the screen went blue and said "Hard Error".....What my brother had suggested was that I go to the Maxtor site or Western Digital to get WDClear. I couldn't find what he was talking about....Holy--Frustrating!! This just sux. We have two lousy computer repair places here and I wouldn't let those people repair a skateboard.....We have had dealings with them in the past and we pretty much told them that--They treated us like we didn't have any idea at all about computers and wanted to charge enough to buy a new computer!!
This is driving me nuts, that I can't fix it. Until someone tells me to let it go, it's junk, I'll keep trying.....
