On Wednesday, August 25, 1999 12:34 PM, Eric Wertman
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snip> I installed the card, rebooted to dos and ran a check program just
to make
> sure the thing really would work. Everything went fine, so I powered down
> the machine and rebooted, and now I can't get windows to load from the
hard
> drive. The floppy boots fine, and niether scandisk nor norton reports
thier
> being anything wrong with the drive. I can also freely access the drive.
>
> I tried to do an fdisk /mbr, didn't help, and I scanned for viruses as
> well, not that either. Can anyone suggest some things I might try to make
> the disk bootable again? I didn't change anything in the bios, and the
> disk is detected fine from there.
>
> The disk: 528MB seagate
> The OS: Win95 ( a I believe)
> The bios is an Award 4.50G
Eric -- You may be referring to rebuilding the master boot record, which
can solve problems with viruses and programs that allow larger hard drives
than 540MB on older type motherboards. The correct command is: FDISK /MBR.
If you want to be able to boot from the hard drive, you either have to
format it with the switch ( /s), for copying system files or if you don't
mine starting from scratch, the command FDISK C: by itself will allow you to
repartition the hard drive's primary and extended partitions and then you
can reformat the drive by using the command, FORMAT C: /S. If you don't
want to loose the data on the hard drive, you can run the command: SYS A: C:
(source) (target) after backing up your system and this should make the HD
"bootable". If you made a "start up" diskette with either Windows 9.x or a
Norton rescue disk, the appropriate files are copied along with the CD-ROM
drivers for your CD-ROM (if a CD-ROM drive is installed). Lastly, you make
want to check the Windows 98 compatibility list,
http://www.microsoft.com/windows98/basics/systemreqs.asp
and Award Software and Phoenix Technologies web site,
http://www.phoenix.com/ . My post "takes" in consideration that you know
all this <g>. HTH. :-)
Walter R. Worth
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