Compaq N160 manual No OS Loading from Hard Drive, Part, Virus, on hard, sectors, hard drive?

Troubleshooting

2.12 No OS Loading from Hard Drive, Part 3

Continued from

Section 2.11,

No OS Loading from Hard Drive, Part 2.

N

System

files on hard

drive?

Y

Install OS

and reboot.

Virus	Y
		Clean virus.
on hard
drive?

N

Run SCANDISK

and check for bad sectors.

Y

OS

loading from

hard drive?

N

Y

Diagnostics on diskette?

N

Done

Replace

hard drive.

N

Can bad sectors be fixed?

Y

Replace

hard drive.

N

Run diagnostics

and follow

recommendations.

Fix bad	Boot from
sectors.	hard drive?

Y

Replace

hard drive.

Done

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