Dell computer problem

[David G Baker]

I still have my 20 meg hard drive that I paid $500 for and had to add another $50 to modify it to work on a Tandy 1000.

[Curt Harms]

The fix was, I installed the drive as a 2nd drive in another computer, and during boot, windows chkdsk ran 3 diags and found 16 kb of defective sectors and fixed it. It apprently worked because I reinstalled it and it booted fine. Thanks for all the suggestions.

If it were me, I'd get this and make your own restore disks. I've used it a few times to restore or move operating systems to new hard drives and it works well! It not only backs up the operating system but any applications and data as well. This is sold as shareware and uses Linux so I can back up a Windows partition without having Windows running. The CD is bootable so set the BIOS so the CD/DVD drive boots before the hard drive. You don't have to be a Linux person to use it, arrow keys or single letters and you're good to go.

HTH

Curt