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Laptop -- No fixed disks present

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Name: bjerkins
Date: June 5, 2004 at 15:12:04 Pacific
Subject: Laptop -- No fixed disks present
OS: Win95`
CPU/Ram: ??

Comment:

The laptop says there is no operating system, it is a Compaq Presario 1070. I use my startup disk, I cannot load Windows because the drive shows no partitions, so I try to fdisk and when I do, it says "No fixed disks present". I don't know if the hard drive is bad or if there is something else I need to do. Thanks in advance for any help.

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Response Number 1

Name: ham30
Date: June 5, 2004 at 16:09:19 Pacific
Subject: Laptop -- No fixed disks present

Reply: (edit)

Is the drive recognized in the Bios?
Download a diagnostic from the hard drive manufacturers web site.

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Response Number 2

Name: bjerkins
Date: June 5, 2004 at 17:06:04 Pacific
Subject: Laptop -- No fixed disks present

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It won't let me see th system information.

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Response Number 3

Name: jameco
Date: June 5, 2004 at 18:05:01 Pacific
Subject: Laptop -- No fixed disks present

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plan on changing the harddrive.
it went on vacation

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Response Number 4

Name: bjerkins
Date: June 5, 2004 at 18:27:29 Pacific
Subject: Laptop -- No fixed disks present

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I can't fdisk, when I try to format, it says format not supported, format terminated. However...it lets me do a scandisk and says there are no problems found.

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Response Number 5

Name: name
Date: June 5, 2004 at 21:55:32 Pacific
Subject: Laptop -- No fixed disks present

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First, I don't really understand Comcrap's bios setup. They somehow have part or all of the bios program on a special, hidden partition on your hard drive. The FIRST thing to do is go to the comparc website and download the utilities, and I don't remember what exactly they're called, probably "diagnostics." I've done this, and at least one machine needed two floppies.
(The thing is, you MUST get the thing recognized or detected in bios before fdisk or format will do any good, and you must have a valid partition ((fdisk first!!))
If you can't do this, or if this doesn't "fix" the problem, I'd buy a hdd cable adaptor, not expensive, that will let you hook your laptop hdd to your desktop IDE cable.
You can temporarily remove your desktop HDD
s and run some diagnostics with a floppy.
I'd have in hand a W98SE startup disk, I'd have downloaded the factory diagnostics disk from the hdd manufacturer's website.
Get into your desktop bios and MAKE SURE that the hdd shows up. If not, you might listen (close) to make sure the thing is actually spinning.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/product?lc=en&cc=us&dest_page=product&dlc=en&product=94916
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareList?product=94916&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&dest_page=product&os=20
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?product=94916&cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en&os=20&dest_page=product&softwareitem=33967
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?product=94916&cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en&os=20&dest_page=product&softwareitem=33959

What crappy support. One more reason I own Thinkpads.

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