coolhand420
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1782-disk controller failure ok whats this mean and how do i fix it. this doesnt sound good. its a compact presario 500mhz 256mb 10g hd win98 3yrs old blah,blah,blah! all the obvius things wont start it so i tried to run my quickrestore cd and it wont even load it i whent into startup bios and checked all the settings all ok i even reset the defaults i tried with the start up disc it loads but wouldnt with cd support ive had this problem before with my burner so i unplugged it and it now starts with cd rom support but the quick restore still wont load so i tried to fdisk and reformat that went ok and my drive is now clean now upon running setupit gets as far as scandisk and tells me windows needs..........kbs to install...... nothing else ever happens ive tried about ten times and it wont work

EDIT: just so no confusion i treid both athe quick restore cd and a cllean install from a win 98 cd
EDIT: just so no confusion i treid both athe quick restore cd and a cllean install from a win 98 cd