My daughter a teacher brought home a student's pc with the promise my Dad
will help you.  The student and his buddies were working on some game when
it died. They thought they had overfilled the system with games. She teaches
English as a second language.  The students were just beginning in English

I think it boiled down to this.  This gets rather complicated.  The students
are Korean the CD is Korean but the floppy disk that goes with it is
English.  Something got lost in the translation there and they have wiped
out the system and lost all his projects class notes and games.

The system is very new with a 1g Pentium III and a Maxtor 60 g 100 ATA
harddrive with ME as the operating system.  The date on the case is June of
this year.  It has both a DVD and a Read Write. The puzzle to us was the
fact that it came through with just a 230 volt power supply the 120 switch
was not there.  Further it came with a network card rather than a modem.
That dorm has access to the net that way.

The error message is "no operating system"

I thought I would be able to access the drive by first putting in another
hard drive.  I put the new hard drive in with ME (English version)on it  and
it ran fine by itself but as soon as I put the damaged drive back in it as
slave I got the message again (no operating system) and could not boot.

I used the fdisk command to find out if there were partitions.  Best I can
tell it was one large partition with one active but no fat system could be
identified. I assumed that since it was dated this year that it would be
formatted as using the whole disk and would be set up in FAT 32.  Since it
was ME an NT format or file system was out of the question....  With the
type of hardware present on the machine that seemed appropriate for an
overseas "office machine" could you install ME on top of an NT format?


I am puzzled why the system won't boot with the good master harddrive that I
put in the machine and just ignore the other one.

Any suggestions?

Rick

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