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non-booting hard disk
Name: Matthew Altman Date: April 18, 2000 at 08:53:11 Pacific
Comment:
My computer was starting to get sort of slow and sluggish, so I decided to reboot. Upon rebooting, however, the computer informed me that there was no boot info on the drive. It went through the sequence of all boot devices...floppy, hard disk, LS-120, CD-ROM...and informed me that it couldn't find a boot record on any of them. I went into the BIOS and it recognizes the hard disk, it's just the boot record that it apparently can't find. What's up?
Name: Matthew Altman Date: April 18, 2000 at 12:13:39 Pacific
Reply:
I was able to boot to DOS using my Win98 CD. However, the only drives I could see were the floppy and the CDROM...I could not access C: Thanks for the fdisk /mbr recommendation. I will try that.
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