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тАО01-08-2005 12:46 PM
тАО01-08-2005 12:46 PM
Re: Compaq Armada M700 not recognising my new 40 GB toshiba Harddisk
what i need is a Boot disk containing the FDISK.EXE and FORMAT.COM programs........i know that win98 bootdisk should contain them.............but i dont know why it is not booting with it.............any idea why????/
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тАО01-09-2005 01:20 AM
тАО01-09-2005 01:20 AM
Re: Compaq Armada M700 not recognising my new 40 GB toshiba Harddisk
1. There are no system tracks on the floppy.. or it is corrupt.
2. The bios is not set to boot from floppy first.
If you cannot access the bios to change this.. you're in a difficult situation!
I recommend you download the floppy for bios from the link above, or the DOS disks (6.22) disk one shouild have the files you need.
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тАО01-09-2005 07:38 AM
тАО01-09-2005 07:38 AM
Re: Compaq Armada M700 not recognising my new 40 GB toshiba Harddisk
i treid again what you said.......downloaded the bootdisk from the link you mentioned....downloaded bootdisk 98SE and DOS 6.22....problem is always the same not booting it tells me to tacke out the disk from the drive and restart...
yes i can enter BIOS,i setted it up to boot from floppy..so its not from the bios
i made also a start up dik from win XP.......it did boot from it..but the problem with this boot disk i cant format my drive cuz it doesnt contain FDISK.....so any idea what should i do next!!!!!!!!
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тАО01-09-2005 11:11 AM
тАО01-09-2005 11:11 AM
Re: Compaq Armada M700 not recognising my new 40 GB toshiba Harddisk
Why the devil won't it boot from any of the other disks?? Do any of them contain the format and fdisk? How did you download and create these disks? If you have a second computer, you could try slaving your Tosh drive to this machine anfd formatting it this way.
If you have a disk cleaning kit, try cleaning your floppy drive.. might be some muck preventing it from workin properly.
If you hav, or have access to a copy of partition magic, you could create the partition and format it with that (create some floppies?)
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тАО01-09-2005 11:44 AM
тАО01-09-2005 11:44 AM
Re: Compaq Armada M700 not recognising my new 40 GB toshiba Harddisk
i also explored the disk.files are there....
xp start disk doesnt contian FDISk nor FORMst.....but the other bootdisks that i downloaded contain them...but they dont want to boot......that is weired.........dont know wot to do.........
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тАО01-09-2005 11:52 AM
тАО01-09-2005 11:52 AM
Re: Compaq Armada M700 not recognising my new 40 GB toshiba Harddisk
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тАО01-09-2005 02:10 PM
тАО01-09-2005 02:10 PM
Re: Compaq Armada M700 not recognising my new 40 GB toshiba Harddisk
Does the BIOS Setup program give you the option of making the CDROM drive the first boot device? If you set it as such, does it boot the WINXP CD?
Roger
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тАО01-09-2005 10:07 PM
тАО01-09-2005 10:07 PM
Re: Compaq Armada M700 not recognising my new 40 GB toshiba Harddisk
I wonder why you want to format it the drive, this option is in the WinXP setup, you do not have to do anything with te drive. During XP setup, you can create the partition and it will format the partion where you install windows itself to.
The you can forget fdisk etc. You can try two things,
1. Like Roger said, search for the bootorder option in the bios and set CD-rom to first boot
2. If option 1 does not work try a Bios update, Biosupdates can also make the computer/laptop work faster, seen that a lot on Dell systems.
BTW have you checked if you HD is detected in the Bios?
HTH,
Ronald
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тАО01-09-2005 10:36 PM
тАО01-09-2005 10:36 PM
Re: Compaq Armada M700 not recognising my new 40 GB toshiba Harddisk
I think the problem here is that:
1. Alex appears loath to update his bios.
2. Booting seems to be a hit and miss affair with floppy, and not possible with CD. I presume that having set the floppy as first in the boot order, he will also have tried CD
3. He attempted the XP install from floppy, but once he had changed to CD portion (had to remove the floppy drive to accomodate the CD drive) it failed.
Alex, can you confirm this is correct?
Also, have you tried using a cleaning disk for your CD and floppy drives?
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тАО01-10-2005 01:57 AM
тАО01-10-2005 01:57 AM
Re: Compaq Armada M700 not recognising my new 40 GB toshiba Harddisk
I'm a bit confused and it's not clear for me how your trouble is evolved.
I try to write some working list.
- You reset your bios (to factory default I think).
- You can't boot from CD drive; as other fellows I guess you have not CD drive in boot list.
- Your Floopy Disk drive works fine becuase you booted form it 6 windows xp pro from it.
Now I guess follows items:
1) You can boot from old HD with windows 98. is it true? If yes, have you two HD, one with Win98 and other where you will install win xp? Or else you have unique HD with two partitions?
2) You can't run fdisk or it doesn't work right. I guess it's the second case. Windows xp cannot boot on same HD where is installed win98; now I'm searching the MS link about this trouble.
Alex,
answer my questions to clarify me your situation because I'm not sure what is your hardware and your software.
Don't worry, here you'll be able to find your solution :-)
Antonio Vigliotti