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Have you used FDISK to set the C partition to Active? Ciao, Tom _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ FROM:Tom Trottier, MBA Senior Technical Architect SHL Systemhouse Ltd. Ottawa Global Development Centre 50 O'Connor St. Suite 501, Ottawa K1P 6L2 Canada +1 613 236-6604x5539 fax 232-5182 ttrottier@shl.com ---------- From: matt@textan.demon.co.uk[SMTP:matt@textan.demon.co.uk] Sent: 1997 July 19 - Saturday 14:50 To: THINKPAD@cs.utk.edu Subject: thinkpad software re-install I've just had to format my hard-drive to get rid of a lot of problems in win95. The problem is that now the machine will not boot of the hard-drive. I've tried format c: /s, and the system files are transferred correctly. But when I reboot the machine all I get after the password is a flashing _ character. If I go into bios and make the floppy drive the primary boot device then the machine boots from the a: drive ok and you can switch to the c: and look at the contents ok. Is there a special utility I have to use to get the machine to recognise the hard-drive as a bootable device. When the bios is set to look at the hard drive it goes straight to the flashing _ thing without the hd icon on the lcd ever coming on. I've tried dos 6.2 as well as fat16 and fat32 versions of win95b and all exhibit the same problem. Any help greatly appreciated Matt@textan.demon.co.uk