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Help!!! My PC cannot boot from har

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Name: wood
Date: June 10, 2003 at 16:24:13 Pacific
OS: Windows 98
CPU/Ram: celeron / 256
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Help!!! My PC cannot boot from hard drive

My PC cannot boot from hard drive. I can boot it from the floppy.
What I did,
(1) I did format the C disk, using “format C: /S”. My pc still cannot boot from hard drive.
(2) I reinstalled the OS Windows 98. After the related files were copied to hard disk C, it restarted. But the problem is still there --- cannot boot from the hard drive.

Please help me. Thanks

Wood



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Response Number 1
Name: cal
Date: June 10, 2003 at 16:38:18 Pacific
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What error message do you get?


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Response Number 2
Name: DAVEINCAPS
Date: June 10, 2003 at 16:40:04 Pacific
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Boot with the bootdisk and run fdisk. Y to large disk support then option 2. Is the partition set active?

If that isn't it, exactly what error message do you get when trying to boot from the HD?


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Response Number 3
Name: daheda
Date: June 10, 2003 at 16:51:23 Pacific
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When I tried to boot from hard drive, there was no special error message, just asking for a boot disk.

And I also tried the fdisk. And found that the C is active


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Response Number 4
Name: DAVEINCAPS
Date: June 10, 2003 at 17:03:32 Pacific
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How is the hard drive configured in cmos?


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Response Number 5
Name: daheda
Date: June 10, 2003 at 17:06:26 Pacific
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In my mind, there is no some special configurating options in cmos.


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Response Number 6
Name: DAVEINCAPS
Date: June 10, 2003 at 19:20:35 Pacific
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Ok, what happened between the last time you could boot from that HD in that computer and the first time you couldn't?


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Response Number 7
Name: Lee
Date: June 11, 2003 at 09:36:45 Pacific
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You might want to check the jumpers on the hard drive if you have it set to slave and it is the only harddrive then I don't think that it would boot from the hard drive. Not positive just something to check out.


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