big clunk, NO OS!?

[blauvogel7]

Okay, I'm online, looking for a map of a city. I click to submit the address and CLUNK! I hear the hard drive 'needle' fall. Never had a problem before. BSOD with WRITE ERROR ON DRIVE C. I return to Windows (98se): unresponsive. CTRL+ALT+DEL does nothing of courrse. 20 minutes later, I turned it off.

I reboot and get the error "No operating system installed". Nuts. I try to use a boot disk, but I find out later that the BIOS doesn't recognize the master hard drive at all.

Any ideas as to how I can reclaim my system? I've never dealt with something of this nature before. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

-- blauvogel7

 

[edfair]

The clunk is probably the heads hitting the limit block. You probably have lost your hard drive.
If so , you replace the hard drive and reload the operating system. Ed Fair
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[blauvogel7]

yeah, I figured as much. Do you think I could salvage the data in any way? Should I bother connecting it to another PC?

 

[edfair]

Unlikely to help. But for your own peace of mind try it.
Generally , the only hope at this time is a professional data recovery company, with clean room, and the parts to swap out. Ed Fair
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[JoaoTL]

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