"Xavier M." a écrit dans le message de news:
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"Ben Myers" a écrit dans le message de
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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


Stupid question maybe :
did you check if there is a HDD in ?

t'as regardé si il y avait un disque dur dans le boitier ?
il est peut être mort
regarde ce que le bios détecte ou bien
essaye d'installer xp en bootant sur le cd 'nouvelle installation' et laisse
le détecter le
disque dur
tu peux quitter après sans rien changer ...
Jean-Marc