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October 7th 07, 09:12 PM posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.compaq
Xavier M.
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Deskpro EN refuses to boot from hard disk
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My guess is that the hard drives have been wiped clean and you get the
message
because there is no operating system installed. If the drives are not
partitioned, then a DOS or Windows bootable floppy will not see a C: drive
partition.
You need to start from scratch, partition and format the drives and
install an
operating system... Ben Myers
Thanks for your advice! I expected to see even a non partitioned HDD, so
maybe I'm wrong.
Strangely, I remember tried to boot from floppy on one of our working
Deskpro PCs (with Windows XP working fine) and there same thing, I could not
see disk C: ! Maybe I made a mistake?...
I also used the old MS-DOS utility MSD on the non-booting PC, same thing: it
reported no hard drive.
Anyway thanks, I'll try tomorrow with the FDISK partitioning utility...
Xavier
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