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

1. Replace hard

drive.

diskette in

2. Replace system

drive?

board.

 

Y

Remove

diskette and

reboot.

Y

Boot

from Done hard drive?

N

 

N

 

 

 

Go to

Boot

 

Section 2.13,

from diskette

 

No OS Loading

drive?

 

from Diskette

Y

 

Drive.

 

 

N

Hard drive

accessible?

Y

Done

Go to

Section 2.12,

No OS Loading from Hard Drive, Part 3.

Reseat

hard drive.

Y

 

Hard drive

 

 

Done

 

accessible?

 

 

 

 

 

 

N

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Run FDISK.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

N

Hard drive

 

 

Create partition,

 

 

then format hard

partitioned?

 

 

drive to bootable

Y

 

 

 

C:\ prompt.

N

 

 

 

 

 

Hard drive

 

 

 

 

 

 

formatted?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Y

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Format hard drive

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and bring to

 

 

 

 

 

a bootable

 

 

Y

 

C:\ prompt.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Computer

 

 

 

 

 

 

booted?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Load OS using

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Restore CD

N(if applicable).

Go to

Section 2.12,

No OS Loading from Hard Drive, Part 3.

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