a nephew who knows even less about computers than i do brought
me his toshiba tecra (500cs) because it wouldn't boot.  he didn't
have a recovery disk.

i tried to boot with my win98 recovery disk and the normal ramdisk
was set up in memory.  there was a message that the partition
table couldn't be read on the fixed drive (implication - the fixed drive
was recognised?).  when i tried to redefine the partition through fdisk,
fdisk gave a message that there was no hard drive.

this tecra also has a removable cd-rom drive and this was fitted into a
special slot.  this too was not recognised by the system at boot up time.

can anyone throw some light on what is happening?  words of
advice on what might be done to get the system up and goin would
be greatly appreciated.




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