Hard Drive

Symptom

 

Problem

 

Solution

Hard drive

 

Part of the hard

 

Insert an emergency diskette

 

 

error message

 

drive failed.

 

that has been created for

is displayed.

 

 

 

your operating system in the

 

 

 

 

diskette drive.

 

 

 

 

1. Restart your Notebook.

 

 

 

 

This operation rebuilds

 

 

 

 

the system files on your

 

 

 

 

hard disk.

 

 

 

 

2. When the operation is

 

 

 

 

complete, restart

 

 

 

 

your Notebook.

 

 

 

 

For further assistance, call

 

 

 

 

the Compaq Customer

 

 

 

 

Support number for

 

 

 

 

your region.

 

 

 

 

 

“Non-system

 

A diskette that does

 

When drive activity stops,

disk or disk

 

not contain system

 

remove the diskette and

error” message

 

files needed to start

 

press the Spacebar to

is displayed.

 

your Notebook is in

 

continue the startup process.

 

 

the diskette drive.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

System files

 

Insert a startup diskette that

 

 

are damaged.

 

has been created for your

 

 

 

 

operating system in the

 

 

 

 

diskette drive.

 

 

 

 

1. Restart your Notebook.

 

 

 

 

2. At the A:\ prompt, type

 

 

 

 

SYS C: and press Enter.

 

 

 

 

The following message is

 

 

 

 

displayed: ‘SYSTEM

 

 

 

 

TRANSFERRED’. This

 

 

 

 

operation restores the

 

 

 

 

system files to your

 

 

 

 

hard disk.

 

 

 

 

3. Restart your Notebook.

 

 

 

 

 

9-20 SOLUTIONS

PRESARIO NOTEBOOK BEYOND SETUP GUIDE

 

1400 SERIES

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