Cannot load DOS! Any key to retry
"Cannot load DOS! Any key to retry"
Thats whats showing up on my screen after booting my computer with any utility disk for my hard drive, I havent tried a WinXX disk cuz i dont have one and cant find one on the net. Any idea what might be the problem? thnx aslo when I boot it without any disk... it just sits there with a black screen and a blinkin curser...
Attempts to fix:
- Restore Master Boot Record with XP CD
- Moved around RAM to see if one was bad or something
- Removed all my PCI devices, bone dry (mobo, cpu, ram, hard drive only)
- Tried booting with different disk utilities for the hard drive (Maxtor Blast 3/ PowerMax 4.06) figuring the BIOS couldnt boot it cuz its a 40 gig and the BIOS is too old to handle it. But I doubt thats the case cuz it was reading it a week ago.
Some Facts:
- Started giving me problems after Installing a PCI FireWire
- BIOS detects the Hard drive and everything else good.
- I am running WinXP Pro
- 350mhz CPU Pentium II
- 256MB RAM (2*128MB)
- Hard drive ran perfectly fine on two other computers two days ago...