Hardware problem

[Filbert]

My computer has 2 drives. One that works well and one that freezes after a few mins which I haven't used for ages. (I am currently on that one so fingers crossed...).

My drive that works well has suddenly disappeared. It won't load up anymore saying that it can't find the file, then automatically loads the crap drive.

Does anyone have any idea what has happened?

[PvtSniper]

possible virus? corrupt files? faulty hd? hard to say really without further information i guess.

[PvtSniper]

which file can it not find? and version of windows are you using?

[Filbert]

its windows millenium and the file is FAT32OS file. There are 2 hard drives a and b. It cannot find b.

[fo3nix]

so, you have two hard drives, what do you mean by you're "currently on the bad one" ?

are the jumper settings correct? one set to master, the other to slave? what's set to load first in the bios?

[Filbert]

This might be a better explanation. (My other half wrote it).

I have a dual BIOS on my pc and have managed to make d: drive inaccessible on startup, either normally or in safe mode. In the OS program it says that d: is unbootable. Yet when c: drive loads up, I can see all the d: drive folders and access them without problem. d: is recognised in dos and I have checked the registry and it says there are no errors. I think it is split with FAT32, but do not know if it was like that before or whether I have done with my fiddling. Drive c: is 14GB and drive d: is 10GB. I have read numerous ways fo sorting this problem out, but being slightly computer illiterate I am worried that am only going to make the problem worse. Please help, as formatting and partitioning really is the last thing I want to do.

[simsfreq]

You should go to your local computer shop and see if you can get hold of a booting disk. Smaller shops are generally better as you aren't just a number to them. Booting up the good drive with a disk would enable you to access it and find out what the problem is.

[fo3nix]

so you have an OS on D: and on C:??

and why do you have a dual-bios, if you are (as you say), not an advanced computer user? [note to self: didnt even know dual-bios's existed]