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

1. Replace

hard drive.

diskette in

2. Replace system

drive?

board.

 

Y

Remove disc or

diskette and

reboot.

Y

Boot

from Done hard drive?

N

 

N

 

 

Go to

 

 

Boot

 

“Flowchart

from diskette

 

2.13—No OS

drive?

 

Loading, Diskette

Y

 

Drive.”

 

 

N

Hard drive

accessible?

Y

Done

Go to

“Flowchart 2.12—No

OS Loading,

Hard Drive, Part 3.”

Reseat

hard drive.

Y

Hard drive

Done

accessible?

 

 

 

N

Run FDISK.

 

 

N

 

 

 

 

Create partition,

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hard drive

 

and then format

 

 

 

hard drive to boot-

 

 

partitioned?

 

 

 

 

able

 

 

 

 

 

Y

 

 

C:\ prompt.

 

 

N

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hard drive

Format hard drive

 

and bring to

 

formatted?

a bootable

 

Y

C:\ prompt.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Y

 

 

 

 

 

 

Notebook

Load OS using Oper-

 

booted?

 

ating System disc (if

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

applicable).

 

 

N

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Go to

 

 

 

 

 

“Flowchart 2.12—No

 

 

 

 

 

OS Loading,

 

 

 

 

 

Hard Drive, Part 3.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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