lady removed "D" drive

Afriend brought her hewlett packard over tonight to be tweaked. It was running win 98 with 32 megs of ram and 5 g hardrive. We upgraded her ram but it turns out while using a disk cleaning utility she removed the d drive. It isn't in the Directory, or any other, folder.
I tried a boot up disk and that didn't help, what do i do??

 

What are the specs of the puter? Which OS is it? Did you try booting from a CD-Rom? If yes, see if you can set the BIOS to primarily boot from a CD-Rom the drive will be created.

 

the os is win 98 and it can't boot from cd drive as there isn't one detected. it also gives an error message when i booted from a floppy but it was a generic and maybe i should make a boot disk from the os???

 

I'm assuming by D drive you mean CD-ROM drive as per your above post. If that's the case, then open the case up and make sure that the IDE cable is secured on both the CD-ROM drive and the Motherboard.

 

it is also quite possible that the cd-rom is bad, but check all the cables first, and make sure the BIOS is set to auto.

 

okay will set bios to auto but the cd rom drive was good until she "deleted" it