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dell latitude cpi d266 xt

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Name: Michael
Date: September 7, 2004 at 13:49:46 Pacific
OS: 98
CPU/Ram: 128
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when i start this laptop it gives me the error "no boot sector" 2 beeps bios is a03.

I do not have any disk that came with this laptop it was given to me. I do have a win98 disk. what shld i do though bfore i go that route?



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Response Number 1
Name: wizard-fred
Date: September 7, 2004 at 17:27:05 Pacific
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First go to BIOS and check the staus of the hard drive.


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Response Number 2
Name: DAVEINCAPS
Date: September 7, 2004 at 23:26:53 Pacific
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Then boot with the bootdisk. At the a:\> prompt type:

fdisk

and enter. Y to large disk support if asked, then option 4. Exactly what does it say?


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Response Number 3
Name: Michael
Date: September 10, 2004 at 09:19:35 Pacific
Reply:

thank you i got it working!
mike


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