The original hard drive on my labtop recently went bad so I bought a new one, I loaded the recovery disc into my computer and loaded the operating system (WINDOWS me) and it says everthing is fine, reboot your computer. I reboot and I get "General error, failed writing to drive C: ) When I try to reload my recovery discs a second time it says it cannot create partition, all disk space is currently in use. This is the second hard drive this has happened on in a row so Im pretty SURE its not the drive. I was thinking perhaps the IDE cable? But I really have no idea please help!!!Did you format before you attempted to write anything onto the hard disk?
I thought the recovery disc that came with the labtop would format it for me. So I guess no I havnt formatted. I dont have any floppys atm is there anyway to make a boot disc onto a CD-R?I am not aware wheter that is possible or not. Perhaps you should take a look on a website that provides people with bootdisks in order to determine if it can be done or not.Well I installed the book disc, and formatted my hard drive, but when it comes to 100% it says format complete, NEXT line is could not create boot, next line format aborted. Im about to trow the thing out the window.Download the diagnostic tools from the manufacturer of the hard drive you bought.Did you Fdisk before format?Yes I formatted, now can anyone give me some ideas on what it might be, insted of more questions?You did not answer my question. I didn't ask if you formatted, I asked if you ran Fdisk BEFORE you formatted.No I didnt, but now it wont let me erase the PARTITIONS or delete anything off the HD without an error.Boot the machine with a boot disk. At the A> prompt type fdisk and press enter. Choose to delete any existing partitions. Next choose to create a primary DOS partition and make it active. If you get prompted for large disk support, choose yes (y). Let Fdisk run without any interuption. When it completes, at the A> prompt type format c: /s and the disk will be reformated and the sytem files transferred to it. You should now be able to see the drive and change to it.the format C: /s command doesnt work with windows me, and I have tried that, I still get error writing boot.Try the command sys c: . But you really need to run Fdisk.Ok just so no one asks me anymore questions and perhaps I can get a few more answers, When I boot up my computer from the hard drive it says General error writing to drive C: . When I try to use my recovery disc and use the option restore operating system I get "image error" cannot create partition, all disk space is currently in use. When I try to run fdisk and delete the partitons and create new ones I get error writing fixed disk.Your recovery disks were made for your old drive which had an image on it?what laptop is this?