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On Tue, 16 Nov 1999 13:59:24   G Kaucher wrote:
>I removed a working Seagate 850 MB HDD from an old computer and installed
>it in another old computer (1995) that is using and Award Bios. The BIOS
>has an autodetect ability, and gives me three option; "LBA, NORMAL, and
>LARGE" for the "HDD geometry." It doesn't seem to matter which one I
>choose. After choosing the "geometry" I FDISK the HDD, and make a an active
>primary partition. After that, I do a format (format c: /v /s). Regardless
>of what I do, I still can't seem to boot from the HDD. It goes thru the
>memory test, flips to the "next page" and gives me a message "hit CTRL to
>boot from a floppy" for a short time, and then gives me a message "INIT ERR
>Hit "ENTER" to reboot. I tried installing DOS 6.22 to see if that would
>make any differnce, but it didn't. I would appreciate any advice. Thanks
>
>Gary Kaucher
>
>                         PCBUILD's List Owner's:
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>                       Drew Dunn<[log in to unmask]>
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Please check your HD's Slave/master jumper.
Make sure that its jumper switched to Master
setting(look your manual HDD),if you have Attached your HDD to Primary IDE as Master Drive.Switch it to Slave Setting,if you want
to configure this drive as Slave Drive.
Good Luck.


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