Hard Drive hung/dead?

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Ian

I have a Compaq 5447. I fire it up and get the Compaq logo. Then
four lines about the monitor card. Then I sit watching the flashing
cursor in the corner.

I've tried the system backup disk I made six months ago; but nothing
was on the disk; (right, my fault, I didn't check the disk after
making the system backup).

Also, I put the all-gone-revert-back-to-day-one CD in the drive. Even
though the light comes on in the cd drive (as well as a:/) it's not
reading the CD itself.

Is there a command file I can download that'll kick the drive beyond
the flashing cursor?

If the drive truely all-gone, wouldn't the Compaq logo NOT come up?

Appreciate anyone's help.

Ian
Quesnel BC
 
Ian-
Will it boot from a floppy disk? Maybe the CD you're trying is not bootable.
The Compaq logo is in the BIOS so you would see that even if the HD was bad.
Make sure the BIOS is set to default. Enter the BIOS by hitting the f10 key
after you see the Compaq logo. Did you add any new hardware or change any
drivers before this happened? If so, try removing the new hardware. Are the
CPU and power supply fans spinning? Does the hard drive LED show any
activity at all? HD make any sound at all? This one has XP Home right? If
you can get it to start up in safe mode, you can use System Restore to try
and restore Windows back to a point before the problem started.
-David
 
David -
I went in a set all the BIOS to default and rebooted. I'm back in the
loop again. I should have mentioned there were no new applications or
hardware/drivers over the last six months, and the OS is Windows 98.
Thanks very much for your help. Very appreciated.
Regards
Ian
 
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