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old 386 laptop
Name: speaky Date: May 31, 2005 at 01:11:29 Pacific OS: windows 3.1 CPU/Ram: 386 6 mb ram
Comment:
everytime i power my compaq presario up the floppy disk drive make vibrating noises all the time and it comes up disk controller error how do i stop this
Name: Sandor (by prdsknoll) Date: May 31, 2005 at 05:47:52 Pacific
Reply:
speaky,
Most likely the hard drive is faulty. I would boot the machine from a bootable floppy which you can download from this LINK.
If it boots successfully, run scandisk which will tell you the shape your hardrdive is in.
I - Sandor J
Character is simply habit long continued. - Plutarch (46 - 120 C.E.)
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Response Number 2
Name: speaky Date: May 31, 2005 at 13:33:01 Pacific
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the floppy disk is faluty it wont boot from the floppy the floppy drive is making vibrating noises all the time and it comes up disk controller error
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Response Number 3
Name: Rimfire Date: May 31, 2005 at 13:57:31 Pacific
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If the floppy drive controller has failed, you will need to replace the drive. If the laptop is worth the expense that is.
You might be able to work around this by changing the boot order in bios to not include the floppy drive. Also look for a setting called something like 'floppy seek on bootup' and disable this.
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Response Number 4
Name: speaky Date: June 1, 2005 at 01:08:11 Pacific
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sometimes bios does not detect it
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Response Number 5
Name: Rimfire Date: June 1, 2005 at 01:58:10 Pacific
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Does this laptop have a hard drive from which it can boot?
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Response Number 6
Name: speaky Date: June 1, 2005 at 05:02:31 Pacific
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yes but i formatted it because i thought it was causing the problem
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Response Number 7
Name: Rimfire Date: June 1, 2005 at 14:35:44 Pacific
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Why do people insist on the most destructive methods of diagnostics?
You may be able to get dos and windows back onto your drive by temporarily installing it (with an adaptor) into a desktop machine.
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