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Replaced HD in Compaq 5000/5SPXE1
The original hard drive on this machine crapped out. I replaced the
hard drive and then ran the QuickRestore program which ran to completion. However, once all 3 of the disks have been run through and it kicks out the last to do the reboot, the machine still does not work. It comes up with "Non-system disk or disk error...". The OS is XP Home. Does anyone have any ideas? |
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wrote in message oups.com... The original hard drive on this machine crapped out. I replaced the hard drive and then ran the QuickRestore program which ran to completion. However, once all 3 of the disks have been run through and it kicks out the last to do the reboot, the machine still does not work. It comes up with "Non-system disk or disk error...". The OS is XP Home. Does anyone have any ideas? Were you require to do any preparation of the hard drive first such as FDISK to make the partition active? -- Earl F. Parrish |
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It wasn't required, but I did run FDISK after the fisrt couple of
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All jumpers are set the same, the drive is on the end of the cable.
However through some other research I had found that Compaqs recommendation of ressetting the BIOS to defaults created more problems than it solved as it started looking for network boot functions. I have since corrected that, but still have not had success. I am currently running fdisk again to skip the settings established by the QR process which I now suspect as being incorrect for a larger hard drive size. I will keep you updated.... |
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Although Compaq has told me it is a problem with the HD, I am not
convinced it is a hardware drive configuration, unless it is not compatible with the QR program. I do not think the disk partitioning provided in the QR program is configuring the hard drive correctly. When trying to run the QR program, during the portion from disk #1 where it is a "windows looking" restore program (as opposed to the red & blue screen throughout the remainder of the process) it gets to 30% and stops returning: "Error #1822, Error: No partitions selected" From here it reboots and continues running the QR program through the "dos looking" (red & blue screens). But it comes back to non-system disk, which I think is because it does not complete this one step. I have tried to manually partition the hard drive through fdisk & format to the settings that would be acceptable to the QR program that would prevent the QR process from re-partitioning. However, this still invokes the QR to re-configure.... |
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Qr disks fdisk and format in the process of restoring.
You may have a bad restore disk. Also when you try to fdisk go to 4 I think disk info and see if there is a non dos partition as part 1. If it is then through fdisk, delete it. That may be your problem. What are you using to fdisk or format the drive with? |
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