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At 12:02 PM 09/16/1999 , Chuck Hassenplug wrote:
>I am putting together a 486 system for a friend. The computer boots fine,
>and it can access the floppy drive and boot from there, but when I add a hdd
>with dos 6.22 and win 3.11, the bios gives me a "no operating system found
>message". I have tried reformatting the hard drive and reinstalling dos and
>windows, but to no avail. What can I do to fix this? Thank you,
This drive probably was in another system as a secondary drive and
the partition was not set as ACTIVE. You will need to run FDISK on
the drive, CHOOSE option #2 Set Partition as Active. This will allow
the hard drive to boot, using the operating system.
If you want instructions on using FDISK, see our Guide to Partitioning
a Hard drive at: http://nospin.com/pc/faqs0004.html
Bob Wright
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