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Boot disk failure

  • 01-04-2003 10:40pm
    #1
    irishguy
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    a friend of mine installed windows xp the other day [after getting one of those system upgrades in compustore,new mobo,proc,memory etc]now the harddrive was his old one a IBM 75gxp and he turned it on today and got the following message "boot disk error please insert boot disk..." can i blame the "click of death" problem that IBM drives suffer from or does anyone else have any other explanation??


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    Capt'n Midnight
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    Is the HDD seen by the bios (setup) ?
    Are they the same settings the drive was formatted under...

    Boot from a floppy or CD into a dos prompt and
    FDISK /STATUS to check if drive can be recognised
    Again from the boot disk can you see the C: ?

    Don't know too much about XP (don't really want to know) - but I take it XP was installed after the upgrade....


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