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On Mon, 21 Jul 1997 12:35:19 -0400, TROTTIER, Tom wrote: >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 > Try a new OS like OS/2, Linux, or WinNT if you're having that many problems to help end the frustration. Paul Regards, Paul Khoury pkhoury@earthlink.net