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ThinkPad won't boot
Name: Johannes Asal Date: December 5, 1999 at 04:00:53 Pacific
Comment:
ThinkPad 755CE won't boot from harddisk nor from any bootdisk I try (Win98, DOS 6.22, DOS 5.0, ...). The operating system on the harddisk was MSDOS 5.0 (I used a diskeditor to get this to know).
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