iMedia crash and wont boot

[htou]

My Pc has died. I have tried to recover it using the
recovery disk and that has failed. I cant even restore
back to factory settings. It spits out all these codes and
at the end its says, error reading c:drive abort, retry or
fail. Now when i boot up it asks me for a systems disk,
boot priority isnt set to a:drive. Whats going on.

I am tearing my hair out. In need of some
advice...urgently...

[Joli Ballew]

There could be a number of things going on, but this part "error reading
c:drive abort, retry or
fail. " would lead me to believe that you've have a hard drive failure or
that the cable that connects the hard drive to the motherboard has come
loose. The computer can't find the C drive, and that's where the OS
is.....check the ribbon that connects the hard drive and the
motherboard....otherwise, you're in quite a jam.

--
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Author of Windows XP Professional - The Ultimate Users Guide
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"htou" > wrote in message
...
> My Pc has died. I have tried to recover it using the
> recovery disk and that has failed. I cant even restore
> back to factory settings. It spits out all these codes and
> at the end its says, error reading c:drive abort, retry or
> fail. Now when i boot up it asks me for a systems disk,
> boot priority isnt set to a:drive. Whats going on.
>
> I am tearing my hair out. In need of some
> advice...urgently...

[htou]

Ok i have restarted the pc with the recovery floppy disk,
i have entered the Packard Bell recovery console, went to
the "reinstall everyting" button.

It does it thing doing a disk error scan, then spits some
codes and then comes up with a failure to read c:drive and
then i am back in the console with a little dialog box
saying "Error 5: glue parts error"

I dont know what this means?!!?? Whats wrong with this
thing. Whats a glue parts error?

Any help appreciated.
>-----Original Message-----
>There could be a number of things going on, but this
part "error reading
>c:drive abort, retry or
>fail. " would lead me to believe that you've have a hard
drive failure or
>that the cable that connects the hard drive to the
motherboard has come
>loose. The computer can't find the C drive, and that's
where the OS
>is.....check the ribbon that connects the hard drive and
the
>motherboard....otherwise, you're in quite a jam.
>
>--
>Joli Ballew
>Author of Windows XP Professional - The Ultimate Users
Guide
>NEW EDITION!
>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-
/1932111832/qid=1051627390/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/104-6151436-
5265553?v=glance&s=books
>
>Purchase my XP E-books at www.expert-guides.com
>
>
>
>"htou" > wrote in message
...
>> My Pc has died. I have tried to recover it using the
>> recovery disk and that has failed. I cant even restore
>> back to factory settings. It spits out all these codes
and
>> at the end its says, error reading c:drive abort, retry
or
>> fail. Now when i boot up it asks me for a systems disk,
>> boot priority isnt set to a:drive. Whats going on.
>>
>> I am tearing my hair out. In need of some
>> advice...urgently...
>
>
>.
>

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP]

"htou" > wrote in message

> Ok i have restarted the pc with the recovery floppy disk,
> i have entered the Packard Bell recovery console, went to
> the "reinstall everyting" button.
>
> It does it thing doing a disk error scan, then spits some
> codes and then comes up with a failure to read c:drive and
> then i am back in the console with a little dialog box
> saying "Error 5: glue parts error"
>
> I dont know what this means?!!?? Whats wrong with this
> thing. Whats a glue parts error?
>
> Any help appreciated.
>> -----Original Message-----
>> There could be a number of things going on, but this part "error
>> reading c:drive abort, retry or
>> fail. " would lead me to believe that you've have a hard drive
>> failure or that the cable that connects the hard drive to the
>> motherboard has come loose. The computer can't find the C drive, and
>> that's where the OS is.....check the ribbon that connects the hard
>> drive and the motherboard....otherwise, you're in quite a jam.
>>
>> --
>> Joli Ballew
>> Author of Windows XP Professional - The Ultimate Users Guide
>> NEW EDITION!
>> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-
> /1932111832/qid=1051627390/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/104-6151436-
> 5265553?v=glance&s=books
>>
>> Purchase my XP E-books at www.expert-guides.com
>>
>>
>>
>> "htou" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> My Pc has died. I have tried to recover it using the
>>> recovery disk and that has failed. I cant even restore
>>> back to factory settings. It spits out all these codes and
>>> at the end its says, error reading c:drive abort, retry or
>>> fail. Now when i boot up it asks me for a systems disk,
>>> boot priority isnt set to a:drive. Whats going on.
>>>
>>> I am tearing my hair out. In need of some
>>> advice...urgently...
>>
>>
>> .

I don't know what that error means, but the first thing I would do is to
open the computer and make sure that the cable is firmly seated both to the
hard drive and to the mother board.

--
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