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no fixed disks present
Name: evelyn self Date: August 17, 2002 at 17:11:47 Pacific
Comment:
I am not very well versed on pc's, but I'm trying to figure this things out...
PC running windows 98 2 yrs old (My Favorite PC) has cd and additional cdrw drive (added) stopped booting - "disk boot failure"
I can boot from cdrw only. I managed to get to "A" drive, typed in fdisk and the message is "no fixed disks present"
Question: does this mean the hard drive is belly-up??? or if not, what do I do? I have checked all connections.
Name: Tom Date: August 17, 2002 at 18:20:58 Pacific
Reply:
The first thing to try is entering the BIOS and try to auto-detect the hard drive. If the detection fails then you will have to open the case and check the power and data cable connections on the hard drive.
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Response Number 2
Name: sonya Date: August 24, 2002 at 08:56:22 Pacific
Reply:
if that does not work then replace the cdrom cables with the harddrive cables and reverse them on the motherboard aswell so that you know which part might be failing. the motherbord, the cable or the harddrive.
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