Troubleshooting

Flowchart 2.11—No OS Loading from Hard Drive, Part 2

Continued from

Section 2.10,

No OS Loading from Hard Drive, Part 1.

N

CD or

diskette in

drive?

Y

Remove

diskette and

reboot.

Y

Boot from hard drive?

N

N

Boot

from diskette

drive?

Y

N

Hard drive

accessible?

Y

Go to

Section 2.12,

No OS Loading from Hard Drive, Part 3.

 

Reseat

 

 

hard drive.

 

1. Replace hard

 

Y

drive.

 

 

2. Replace system

Hard drive

 

board.

Done

 

accessible?

 

 

N

 

 

Run FDISK.

 

 

 

N

Done

Hard drive

Create partition,

then format hard

 

partitioned?

drive to bootable

 

Y

C:\ prompt.

 

 

Go to

 

N

 

 

Section 2.13,

Hard drive

 

No OS Loading

formatted?

 

from Diskette

 

 

Drive.

Y

 

 

Format hard drive

 

 

 

 

and bring to

 

 

a bootable

 

Y

C:\ prompt.

 

 

 

Computer

 

 

booted?

 

 

Load OS using

Done

Restore CD

N

(if applicable).

Go to

Section 2.12,

No OS Loading from Hard Drive, Part 3.

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