Fdisk cannot detect my harddisk

[John Stevenson <John.Stevenson@objectcore.co.uk>]

> Sir ,
>       I use 20 GB seagate harddisk.
>
>       Before installing the windows'98 , I enter into BIOS setup and 
> gave "YES" for Boot sector virus enabled.When I install the OS , it 
> says "Boot sector virus Found, do you overwrite ? , I answered "Yes" 
> for this. After then the computer hanged .
>
>       When I use Fdisk , It says there is no Fixed Disk.
>
>       But when I setup the Windows XP by using another disk [one is
> primary master & other is primary slave ] , XP detect the disk and
> show the harddisk size.but it cannot setup on that disk. 

Try switching the off the Bios boot sector virus check.  Generally these 
bios virus checks cause more problems than they allegedly solve.  If 
they see something they dont understand, they tend to call it a virus 
(and they usually dont understand very much!!!).

If you still have no success, try using your Debian CD as a rescue disk, 
or grab Knoppix (http://www.knoppix.net/ )if things have gone seriously 
wrong with your hard drive, you still may be able to rescue your data.

Johnny.