Oh boy, could I use some help. I get the following message when trying to strart up my computer or go into safe mode:

Realtek rtl 8139 (x)/8130/810x pci fast ethernet controller v 2.13 (020326)
PXE-E61: media test failure, check cable
PXE: exiting PXE ROM

This flashes over and over. When I go into BIOS, there seems to be no help there. I have varied my boot up sequence, and tried turning of the network sequence, to no help.

I did put my HDDs to boot first then I got the message at startup: Invalid partition table. I then used partition doctor to rebuild the partition table. But this has not worked either. I took out my second hard drive (this system is a laptop) and then computer boots up and works fine. So I know it has to do with the second hard drive, but I also know it works because partition doctor was able to run it's own version of scandisk and reported no errors, and it displays all the partitions along with their unique names and size...when I put the hard drive back in, it gives me the realtek message.

Also, the hard drive in question is my secondary. The primary drive, which works fine when I remove the secondary, contains the OS.

S.O.S.!
Harvey

DO they have cases for laptop hard drives? I think it is like 3.5".

You think I will not be able to recover since I rebuilt the partition table? The partitions of that drive still have the names I named them inside partition doctor.  It  checked the disk surface and it said the drive was fine.

Harvey

If I use ghost to rooll back my c drive (system drive), will that give me back the old partition table?

I dont have an up to date ghost image of the bad drive; I....I dont believe I rebuilt the partition table and that was the wrong thing to do.

I bought a case for the drive and hooked it up. It reads, and all my folders are there, but they all show as empty, even though the files take up as much space as they originally did.

Is there anything I can do? Anything on the "ultimate boot cd"?

Thanks for all the help.

Harvey