From: Paul Khoury (pkhoury_at_earthlink.net)
Date: Wed Jul 30 1997 - 21:57:40 EDT
On Mon, 21 Jul 1997 12:35:19 -0400, TROTTIER, Tom wrote:
>Have you used FDISK to set the C partition to Active?
>Ciao, Tom
>_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
>FROM:Tom Trottier, MBA Senior Technical Architect
>SHL Systemhouse Ltd. Ottawa Global Development Centre
>50 O'Connor St. Suite 501, Ottawa K1P 6L2 Canada
>+1 613 236-6604x5539 fax 232-5182 ttrottier_at_shl.com
>
>----------
>From: matt_at_textan.demon.co.uk[SMTP:matt_at_textan.demon.co.uk]
>Sent: 1997 July 19 - Saturday 14:50
>To: THINKPAD_at_cs.utk.edu
>Subject: thinkpad software re-install
>
>I've just had to format my hard-drive to get rid of a lot of problems in win95. The problem is that now the
machine
>will not boot of the hard-drive. I've tried format c: /s, and the system files are transferred correctly. But when I
reboot
>the machine all I get after the password is a flashing _ character. If I go into bios and make the floppy drive
the primary
>boot device then the machine boots from the a: drive ok and you can switch to the c: and look at the
contents ok.
>Is there a special utility I have to use to get the machine to recognise the hard-drive as a bootable device.
When the
>bios is set to look at the hard drive it goes straight to the flashing _ thing without the hd icon on the lcd ever
coming on.
>I've tried dos 6.2 as well as fat16 and fat32 versions of win95b and all exhibit the same problem.
>Any help greatly appreciated
>
> Matt_at_textan.demon.co.uk
>
Try a new OS like OS/2, Linux, or WinNT if you're having that many problems to help end the frustration.
Paul
Regards,
Paul Khoury
pkhoury_at_earthlink.net
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