A friend of mine has an older computer with windows 98 installed. It had been packed away for about a year. When she unpacked it and set it up, it worked fine for a few weeks, but now she gets the black screen that says "error in disk c" abort/retry. whats the deal?
2007-02-17 17:25:58 · 6 answers · asked by Rae 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
she doesnt have a recovery disk. i read that we might be able to start in safe mode. and recover that way. How do you reformat a hard drive?
2007-02-17 17:38:20 · update #1
Dead drive...
Re-format and install ubuntu..
2007-02-17 17:28:53 · answer #1 · answered by ★Greed★ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Disk C: is usually the primary boot drive (the primary hard drive).
Ater sitting for a year, then being used, there could be several things wrong with the drive. I doubt there is physical damage, because it booted and worked for a couple of weeks, unless it was moved immediately before it failed.
I would say that the best course of action would be to format the hard drive, do a scan to identify any bad sectors, then reinstall. Since it has been sitting for a long time, there probably isn;t much onthe computer that is important.
2007-02-17 17:38:14 · answer #2 · answered by ijump82 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can reformat it by reinstalling windows. This will solve it and give it a clean start unless the hard drive is actually dead. If that is the case, then you will need buy a new hard drive and then reinstall windows.
2007-02-17 17:43:24 · answer #3 · answered by chovens 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Error in disc C: usually means a dead hard drive, sorry to say.
2007-02-17 17:32:06 · answer #4 · answered by Michael T 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
you left a floppy disk in the drive. check that first.
2007-02-17 17:29:24 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it's a virus....
2007-02-17 17:32:29 · answer #6 · answered by Mee-OW =^..^= 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋