24 Mar
1999
24 Mar
'99
1:23 a.m.
Mark Gregory wrote:
3) I'm having some trouble with the P70. Originally, it wouldn't boot at
all. I ran the diagnostics from the Reference Disk, and all tests were
passed. I re-ran the Auto Configuration with no errors. I installed PC-DOS
6.3, and formatted the built-in HD at the same time. Everything seems fine,
but the system won't boot from the hard drive alone. If I boot with a
floppy in the drive, I can access the HD and run programs off of it. But
without a floppy, nothing works. Any ideas?
It sounds like the disk was fdisked, but then the main dos partition was not
made active. A less desireable alternative is that the system tracks on the
HD are bad. You could also try "fdisk /mbr".