11. No O/S Loading from Hard Drive, Part 2

Continued from

Page 3-11,

No O/S Loading

from

Hard Drive, Part 1

CD or

N

 

1. Replace hard

 

drive.

diskette in

 

 

 

 

2. Replace

drive?

 

 

 

 

system board.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Y

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Remove diskette

 

 

 

and reboot.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Boot from

Y

 

 

 

Done

hard drive?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

N

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Boot

N

Go to Page 3-14,

No O/S

from diskette

 

 

 

 

Loading from

drive?

 

 

 

 

Diskette Drive

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Y

 

 

 

 

Access

N

 

 

 

 

Reseat hard drive.

Y

Access

Done

hard drive?

N

Run FDISK

Hard drive

N

 

 

 

 

 

 

partition?

 

 

 

 

Y

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Create partition, then format hard drive to bootable C:\ prompt.

Hard drive

N

 

formatted?

 

Y

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

hard drive?

 

Y

Computer

Load O/S using

boot?

Restore CD if

Y

 

 

 

 

Done

 

 

 

Go to Page 3-13,

 

 

 

No O/S Loading

 

 

 

 

from

 

 

Hard Drive, Part 3

 

 

 

 

Note: Refer to the “Customer

 

 

Responsibilities” section of this

 

 

document and the customer

 

 

service contract.

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