I know this is not the right area to post but maybe someone can help: here goes I have a Homebuilt computer and it tells me when I turn on computer to reboot from disk when I put the disk in to reload windows XP and it give me the option to choose R to repair and when I click that i get the message "make sure any hard disk drives are powered on and properly connected to your computer and that any disk related hardware configuration is correct . this may involve runnin a manufacture.." I have not done anything new to computer I have a modem connected to it but until today everythin was fine Can someone help? thanks
so what do you do after the error?.. have you checked the cables to the drives and that they are properly detected in the bios? honest.. if you built it you should be able to sort this one out
Do a chkdsk c: /f. If the computer was running fine, and now it won't boot, you might have had an abnormal shutdown that corrupted the system files. You can use windows installation cd to get to the command prompt to run the command. The best utility is a bartpe bootcd. Right now it looks like your hard drive isn't being recognize because it's corrupted. If you hooked this drive to another computer it might showup as "RAW" a sure symptom of corruption. Chkdsk will usually fix this problem everytime.
