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by cyberjan Apr 15, 2002 last reply Apr 22, 2002

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I have a compaq perario 5461
I received a boot disk failure message,
my setup program didnt see a HD
I bought a new one and installed it
I tried to run the restore disk and it got into a loop, doing nothing and going back to the menu. This is what it did with the old HD. How do I troubleshoot this?
jan

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by dcosgrove Apr 15, 2002

You may have to partition the hard drive first. It may be seeing a blank drive and assuming there is still no HD. Boot to a windows startup floppy and type fdisk at the a: prompt. Follow the directions and create a primary dos partition and see if that works.

by cyberjan Apr 22, 2002

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by pinoy_teknik Apr 15, 2002

First make sure that the connection are properly setup, the BIOS is properly configure, set all drives to auto, after a you make such step....

If properly setup and still problem, used a Win98 Start up Disk. Boot the system with the Win98 Startup.

You need to partition the drive, using fdisk.
a:\fdisk, (if you're not familiar to this you can go to www.fdisk.com for more information.)
You need to reboot to see the new partition.

Start your computer with Win98 Startup again and You need a CD-ROM support.
Format the drive with this command A:\FORMAT C:/S

After begin the installation......

Pinoy_Teknik

by cyberjan Apr 22, 2002

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by wisdom642 Apr 15, 2002

I think that checking to see if you set your jumpers on the hard drive, set to master and make sure command com is on the hard drive. If you did not do it before you started you should fdisk then format. Make sure you get proper info. on how to use fdisk utilites. Hope this helps.