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

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

 

“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.”

Reseat

hard drive.

Y

Hard drive

accessible?

N

Run FDISK.

N

Hard drive

partitioned?

Y

N

Hard drive formatted?

Y

Y

Computer

booted?

N

Go to

“Flowchart

2.12—No OS

Loading,

Hard Drive, Part 3.”

Done

Create partition, and then format hard drive to bootable

C:\ prompt.

Format hard drive

and bring to

abootable C:\ prompt.

Load OS using

Operating System disc (if applicable).

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