Re: Hard Disk Problem

If not unlikely coincidental drive failures, sounds like some sort of infection inhabiting both the first pc and the backup she used (presumably imaged recently from that first machine.)

ijustdontlikespamthatsall@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
My mother has used a custom DOS based program for the last 10 odd
years, last running under W2K on an IBM T23 laptop (1.13 Ghz 256 Mb
RAM). Recently the program came up with some sort of hardware error and
now when the computer boots I get the following:

ERROR
0200: Failure Fixed Disk 0

Press <F1> to Setup

She restored from a backup to another identical T23 she had not used
before, ran the program again and after a while (just enough time to
re-enter lost data) the same thing happened.

I have disabled all but the cd-rom in the boot priorities yet it will
not boot from any cd.

There is also an option on boot to "Choose Temporaty boot device <F12>"
on boot which results in the same error.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Alex



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