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by jweekley1 1 view

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After replacing a harddrive in my compaq presario laptop it will not boot. The harddrive was formatted using an identical laptop. Any suggestions would be helpful.

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by grump

First boot the laptop form a bootable diskette.. Type DIR C: at the A: prompt and if you get back a blank directory of the hard drive then at least the laptop is not having any problems with the Hard Drive.

When the Hard Drive was formatted in the other Laptop was the /s used in the format.

If not, boot the laptop from a windows system diskette and type SYS C:[enter] this will place the system files on the Hard Drive.

Grump..

by gijoe

Compaq has propietary hardware. Is it a compaq hdd?

If yes, then I'd be looking at replacing the system board... since the drive controller may be bad.

by jweekley1

The hard drive is compaq, checked the part number with there site. I will look at the cable or the board.

thanks

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