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Rich Farrell
| Posted on Saturday, December 1, 2001 - 10:37 pm: | |
my compaq LTE 5250laptop will not boot from the hard drive when i boot from the windows98 startup disk it tells me that the drive does not have a valid fat partition i used a maxtor utilities disk and it shows me that the disk is ok it can not fix because it is not a maxtor drive it is a toshiba drive please help |
Rob (Robwalk)
| Posted on Sunday, December 2, 2001 - 11:27 pm: | |
Hi Rich, Has the hard drive been working OK in the past or is it a new HDD you are trying to install. If it is a new installation you may need to fdisk it and remove the old partition that is corrupt. Then create primary partition and then format it. Viz: a:\format c: /s. Once this is done it should be bootable if a OS is installed. Good luck, Rob |
rich farrell
| Posted on Wednesday, December 5, 2001 - 10:38 am: | |
thank you i have tried that and it says i have no permanent hard drive installed |
V (Vera)
| Posted on Wednesday, December 5, 2001 - 3:26 pm: | |
you could try fdisk /mbr to see if that helps. |
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