Troubleshooting

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

Continued from “Flowchart 2.10—No OS Loading, 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

“Flowchart 2.12—No OS Loading, 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

 

 

C:\ prompt.

 

Y

 

 

N

 

Go to

Hard drive

 

“Flowchart 2.13—No

 

OS Loading, Diskette

formatted?

 

Drive”

 

 

 

Y

 

 

Format hard drive

 

and bring to

 

 

a bootable

 

Y

C:\ prompt.

 

 

 

Notebook

 

 

booted?

Load OS using

 

 

Done

N

System Restore CD

 

(if applicable).

 

Go to

 

 

“Flowchart 2.12—No

 

 

OS Loading, Hard

 

 

Drive, Part 3”

 

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