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Anonymous
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| Posted on Monday, June 17, 2002 - 10:42 am: |
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a few days ago i got a blue screen on Windows telling me "Cannot write to drive C:". There was plenty of free space. of course it was a critical error and i had to reboot, obviously i thought a cable came loose. i checked my drive and power cable, both were tight so i rebooted. the routine check by bios on startup told me the primary master (my C: drive) was not detected, Windows would not boot. i went into bios and tried to detect it myself, it wouldnt detect the first few times, but after about 10 tries it detected it but the size/clusters/blocks were all wrong. it said it was a 360gig drive when it was only 20gigs. i kept trying to detect it manually, sometimes it wouldnt detect, sometimes it would report the wrong size, until eventually after about 50 tries it detected i and all the parameters were correct. i rebooted, updated Norton's virus definitions, ran a full system scan, no viruses detected. everything was fine for a couple days, then it did the same thing (Windows froze, error said "Could not write to C:", bios was not detecting drive, ect.) until finally i got it to boot up. when i got into Windows, my desktop icons and wallpaper were missing, my desktop was showing the default 'first Windows boot' look with the display size set to the default 800x600, not my normal 1024x768. obviously my settings got all changed back to the defaults. i tried to open up Explorer to check my drives to see if my files got wiped out. It opened but when i went to click on a drive letter to check it, it said "You need to have Active X turned on in Internet Explorer in order to use this function". I tried to open up Internet Explorer, no luck. it wouldnt even attempt to open. nothing i clicked on would open. I shut it down and rebooted several times, same thing.....(see part 2)
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COMPUTER DISCUSSIONS » HELP! my computer keeps eating my harddrives! (part 1 of 2)