Compaq Maintenance and Service Guide for Compaq Presario Flowchart No OS Loading Hard Drive, Part

Troubleshooting

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

Continued from

“Flowchart

2.10—No OS

Loading,

Hard Drive, Part 1.”

N

Disc or

diskette in

drive?

Y

1.Replace hard drive.

2.Replace system board.

Reseat

hard drive.

Y

Hard drive	Done
accessible?

Remove disc or

diskette and

N

reboot.

	Y
Boot
from		Done
hard drive?
N	N
		Go to

Run FDISK.

N

Hard drive

partitioned?

Y

N

Create partition, and then format hard drive to bootable

C:\ prompt.

Boot	“Flowchart
from diskette	2.13—No OS
drive?	Loading,
Y	Diskette Drive.”

N

Hard drive

accessible?

Y Done

Go to

“Flowchart

2.12—No OS

Loading,

Hard Drive, Part 3.”

Hard drive	Format hard drive
	and bring to
formatted?	a bootable
	C:\ prompt.

Y

Y

Computer	Load OS using
	Operating System disc
booted?
	(if applicable).

N

Go to

“Flowchart

2.12—No OS

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Hard Drive, Part 3.”

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