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| Thread ID: 55956 | 2005-03-23 14:44:00 | hp vectra new hard drive help | jonlinsmith (7340) | Press F1 |
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| 337253 | 2005-03-24 01:37:00 | has the person every installed a hard drive before??? they messed something up, the The system Bios for any errors, if he has a pw on the bios and forgot it i can give u a master password to get through it, (if i remember it correctly) |
TINY (7596) | ||
| 337254 | 2005-03-24 01:39:00 | From an HP Vectra manual "Under the “Start-Up Center” sub-menu, the Setup program not only allows the user to select which devices are enabled or disabled for booting up the system, but also indicates their order of precedence when more than one is enabled: network, flexible disk drive, CD-ROM drive, or hard disk drive." Can you find that in the setup screens? |
PaulD (232) | ||
| 337255 | 2005-03-24 01:42:00 | actually i'm wrong what i wrote before. There is no screen in the set up to change the order. Just what drives are.( i am acting as the go-between for hubby trying to get the HP up and runnung)We are putting in a quantum firebal 8.4 gb. I went to Maxtor site and downloaded maxblast. That seems to install and it then tells him to reboot the pc and install windows. He only gets a black screen white a cursor blinking left top corner. Cannot enter anything. Maybe needs to install dos first? I dont know.... Maxblast says it is formatted and partitioned. Possible causes: 1. Corrupted floppy Recommended course of action - replace the Windows 98 floppy with a good one 2. Either the primary partition on the drive not set as active or the master boot record not being initalised or both. Since this is a drive without personal data, recommended course of action - use a Windows 98 startup disk, remove all existing partitons, reboot, create a new partition, reboot, format, reboot and install windows. Quote For The Week People who think they know everything are very irritating to those of us who do - Anonymous |
merlin (256) | ||
| 337256 | 2005-03-24 01:42:00 | I'd go along with Davesdad at this stage. Your boot floppy seems not to be booting, yet Maxblast, which is a boot floppy did. So the first thing is to ensure you have a fault free boot floppy with all the utils you need like fdisk.exe, format.com etc. Download one if necessary from bootdisk.com Added, then do as merlin says :) |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 337257 | 2005-03-24 01:47:00 | The Win98 CD should be bootable if the CD drive is set in the boot order. | PaulD (232) | ||
| 337258 | 2005-03-24 01:51:00 | Unless, it aint a real copy of win98 (like a burnt) and they burnt it over wrong | TINY (7596) | ||
| 337259 | 2005-03-24 01:58:00 | what operating system do you have on the current pc ?......if it's 98 then slave the drive to it and format and include the startup files......or if you need to download a 98 boot disk image from www.bootdisk.com and then double clik that file to write it to floppy then with the other drive slaved to your pc have the boot floppy in also then restart your pc using that floppy and type in sys.com d: (or whatever drive your slaved drive is called) be careful you dont 'sys' your main harddrive lol.......that'll put the necessary boot files on the harddrive.......also while it's slaved copy all the 98 cab files into a folder on the new drive and when you put it back into the system after doin the 'sys' then it'll boot up to a c: prompt then change to the 98cabs folder by typein in cd and the name of the cabs folder then tap enter then type in setup and you'll be away laughin | drcspy (146) | ||
| 337260 | 2005-03-24 02:27:00 | okay- first- he can only enable or disable at the blue startup screen. A:\ is listed in perifials and is enabled. Second- went to bootdisk.com and got the win98se disk. Tried again with this disk and received message that it is not a system disk. So, how do we do as Merlin said, remove all partitions, when everything is sying "not a system disk"? |
jonlinsmith (7340) | ||
| 337261 | 2005-03-24 02:37:00 | The file from www.bootdisk.com needs to be extracted (run) on the PC you downloaded it with, it then creates a boot disk. In itself the file is not bootable. If it is not created, but is just the bootdisk file then "invalid system disk" messages will result. Can you confirm that you have actually created the boot disk? |
godfather (25) | ||
| 337262 | 2005-03-24 02:39:00 | What about the CD drive, is that showing enabled for booting? If it is a MS copy of Win98 CD that should start its instal routine if it is in the drive when you power up. | PaulD (232) | ||
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