[NTLUG:Discuss] Not necessarily a Linux question

[Dennis Myhand]

Hi All:

I have a hardware question which really has little or nothing to do with
Linux, but I can't find an answer elsewhere.

I have received a 20 gig Western Digital Harddrive formatted NTFS which,
when I set it up in a machine, is detected by the bios, but when it
comes time to boot, gives the error:
"Stage1 Hard Drive Failure"

My question is, is this fixable, or is it really, really bad.  As an
aside to Linux, I have recompiled the 2.4.2 kernel to read NTFS and I
can mount the harddrive and read it just fine.  It simply will not boot.

Thanks, Dennis in Waco