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hard drive wont boot up
Name: Dale C. Allen Date: January 3, 2000 at 05:01:17 Pacific
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NEED HELP, MY HARD DRIVE WON'T BOOT, I'VE TRIED 3 DIFFERENT HARD DRIVES. I'VE PARTITIONED AND FORMATTED 1, THE OTHERS WERE ALREADY BOOTABLE. I GET AN ERROR ON ONE, IT SAYS ,,,,BOOT > THE OTHER TWO JUST HANGS AT "STARTING WINDOWS" NOW, I CAN BOOT FROM A FLOPPY AND ACCESS THE DRIVE, BIOS SAYS THE DRIVE IS THERE, JUST CAN'T BOOT FROM IT.
Name: steve Date: January 3, 2000 at 05:30:00 Pacific
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i had the same problem, when i installed my secondary drive, ez-bios was installed for my boot drive also and windows wouldn't boot, i disabled ez-bios for my boot drive and it worked.
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Response Number 2
Name: bebop Date: January 3, 2000 at 15:44:17 Pacific
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try formats instead of format. gets rid of the ez-bois that screws everything up. s stands for system.
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Response Number 3
Name: john morgan Date: January 3, 2000 at 15:58:17 Pacific
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try using the following command at the dos prompt a:\fdisk /mbr with fdisk on the floppy
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Response Number 4
Name: dean Date: January 4, 2000 at 22:15:32 Pacific
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eliminate some variables.
if you have 2 hard drives installed, remove one and try booting up with just 1 hard drive installed - then switch drives and repeat.
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Response Number 5
Name: Dale C. Allen Date: January 5, 2000 at 03:24:58 Pacific
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JOHN MORGAN
thanks that's just what it was, somehow my mbr was corrupted.
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Response Number 6
Name: Chris Anzalone Date: June 22, 2001 at 23:00:32 Pacific
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This is a great place to post stuff, im very glad i found it since no other places has information even coming close to what my problem is.
Ok: I installed a 40GB in my neighbors comp, mb wont even detect it as a hd. So i installed ez-bios and it found it. Now when i boot to windows 98, on the small 1.2GB as the master, holding windows 98, it hangs....when i disable ez-bios it hangs before it gets into windows. Strange..since this is from a completely raw install. Can i get some help? (I dont want to format anything on the master drive since i already gave his computer back), is this fixable, or even heard of!? If so, PLEASE email me since i probably wont come back here, i tend to forget...
Thanks!
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Response Number 7
Name: chris anzo Date: June 22, 2001 at 23:03:26 Pacific
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heh, sorry i just re-read the above post, its 2 in the morning so dont mind me, when i disable ez-bios windows boots fine....
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