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no fixed disks present
I was given a used computer and when I turn it on it runs
through the normal checks and then before Windows comes up it gives me a message that says: DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER I insert my Win98 boot disk and press enter and it reads the disk and gives me the MICROSOFT WINDOWS STARTUP MENU. I choose 1. Start computer with cd-rom support. The message comes up saying: Windows 98 has detected that drive C does not contain a valid FAT or FAT32 partition. Then it list 3 possible reasons. 1. being to partition the drive. But, when I type fdisk at the MS-DOS prompt A:\ I get: "no fixed disk present" with the A:\ again. I'm not real good with this stuff yet so any help in this matter will be greatly appreciated. Thanking You in advance. Keith |
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no fixed disks present
Keith wrote:
I was given a used computer and when I turn it on it runs through the normal checks and then before Windows comes up it gives me a message that says: DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER I insert my Win98 boot disk and press enter and it reads the disk and gives me the MICROSOFT WINDOWS STARTUP MENU. I choose 1. Start computer with cd-rom support. The message comes up saying: Windows 98 has detected that drive C does not contain a valid FAT or FAT32 partition. Then it list 3 possible reasons. 1. being to partition the drive. But, when I type fdisk at the MS-DOS prompt A:\ I get: "no fixed disk present" with the A:\ again. I'm not real good with this stuff yet so any help in this matter will be greatly appreciated. Thanking You in advance. Keith There's a pretty good chance the hard disk is dead. It's possible one of the cables has come loose or that there's some other explanation. -- The e-mail address in our reply-to line is reversed in an attempt to minimize spam. Our true address is of the form . |
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Check the cables to the hard drive and while there, determine what brand it
is. Then go to the maker's web site, download their diagnostic software and check the health of the drive (it is probably DOA). The software runs from a floppy disk. -- Regards Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98 Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour Knowledge Base Info: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo "Keith" wrote in message ... I was given a used computer and when I turn it on it runs through the normal checks and then before Windows comes up it gives me a message that says: DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER I insert my Win98 boot disk and press enter and it reads the disk and gives me the MICROSOFT WINDOWS STARTUP MENU. I choose 1. Start computer with cd-rom support. The message comes up saying: Windows 98 has detected that drive C does not contain a valid FAT or FAT32 partition. Then it list 3 possible reasons. 1. being to partition the drive. But, when I type fdisk at the MS-DOS prompt A:\ I get: "no fixed disk present" with the A:\ again. I'm not real good with this stuff yet so any help in this matter will be greatly appreciated. Thanking You in advance. Keith |
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