System wont start up Help!

[Mascarab]

I have windows 98 SE. It wont start up anymore, it gets to "Verifying DMI Pool Data" and sits there, and if it does goto the 98 screen it wont go any further. Now its not detecting the hard drive. When it checks whats on the IDE channels I hear the HD sound like it spins but then stops and it isnt detected. Whats wrong?

 

[Supradude]

are you OC'ed?... sounds like symptoms of too much overclocking...

 

[JERR]

Try booting from the Win98 CD to a dos prompt with CD support. cd to the cd drive win98 folder and try to run a disk intensive utility like scandisk or chkdsk on the hard drive. If you can't then the drive is probably dead.

 

[Mascarab]

Its not overclocked, its a PII 350 on a biostar mobo, 10.2GB IBM 7200RPM 2MB buffer HDD, 32mb ram.

I'll just take the hd and put it in my puter and see what it says, what should i try