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Deskpro EN refuses to boot from hard disk
Hi,
I work for a non profit association and we were given two Compaq PC's by a company: one PIII 450MHz Deskpro, and one PIII 866MHz Deskpro EN (with no documentation nor software on floppy/CD ROM). I have no idea of what is installed on their disks. Both PC refuse to boot from the hard drive with the same message: "non system disk or disk error" I 've checked the Compaq Setup with F10, everything seems OK (including HDD setup) I tried booting from DOS or Windows XP floppy disks and then strangely, I can't see any C: hard disk from there... Help !!! What am I supposed to do? TIA! Xavier |
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Deskpro EN refuses to boot from hard disk
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 On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 11:48:59 +0200, "Xavier M." wrote: Hi, I work for a non profit association and we were given two Compaq PC's by a company: one PIII 450MHz Deskpro, and one PIII 866MHz Deskpro EN (with no documentation nor software on floppy/CD ROM). I have no idea of what is installed on their disks. Both PC refuse to boot from the hard drive with the same message: "non system disk or disk error" I 've checked the Compaq Setup with F10, everything seems OK (including HDD setup) I tried booting from DOS or Windows XP floppy disks and then strangely, I can't see any C: hard disk from there... Help !!! What am I supposed to do? TIA! Xavier |
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Deskpro EN refuses to boot from hard disk
"lefourbe" a écrit dans le message de news: ... t'as regardé si il y avait un disque dur dans le boitier ? Oui, le disque dur est bien là! :-) 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 ... Avec FDISK j'ai pu enfin voir le disque, sans aucune partition dessus. Faut croire qu'ils ont fait le grand ménage par le vide avant de nous refiler les PC. Bon, faudra faire une install complète... Merci! Xavier |
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