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by bigdawg640

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I have a KeyNote laptop,everytime I start it it goes through post,but when it is done I get a message that the partition is corrupt, now here comes the fun part, it does not have floppy drive is ther any other way to get it to boot without using a bootdisk

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by kimsi84

You don't have a floppy drive for the laptop? Do you have a cdrom drive? I am unfamiliar with your type of laptop, but if it is relatively new, and you do have a CD drive, then you can boot off a bootable CD. You would have to set it to boot off the CD by changing the "boot order" in BIOS setups.

by wlbowers

They make an adapter that allows you to connect a 2.5" laptop to a desktop computer. You can then run diagnostic's on that drive. Sys the drive ect.

I don't like to promote vendors so go to Google and search for:

2.5" ide adapter

This is what I use to upgrade a laptops hard drive.

Good Luck Lee

by jay_laptop

Hi there,

Is this refering to a hibernate partition by any chance?

Older laptops (packard bell's for example) have a hibernate partition that can become corrupt, in which case the OEM should be able to advise you on the hibernate manager program if that is the case and you should not loose data.

An alternative might be to boot from a startup disk and check and reset the active partion with FDISK, You said the machine has no floppy disk, if it has a cdrom then you could have a bootablecd created

by mzy

Yep, one way is to use an external floppy disk drive. If there's no floppy it should be quite a new laptop right? Old laptops must have it. So it should have a CDrom drive, you can use a bootable CD, Windows ME and above are all CD bootable (i think?) and you'd like to use it to boot in to DOS first.

The other way is to take out your hard disk and connect it to a desktop computer, fdisk it, and then put it back into your laptop. Oh, if you still have warranty I'd suggest you to use the warranty instead. If the seal (I don't know where it is on your laptop) is broken they wouldn't recognise it then.

by dragononedon

If you have a CD rom, you can change the boot up order and have it boot from your CD rom. you can make a boot disk depending on your OS. If you are running XP you can go here http://www.ntfs.com/products.htm for software that deals with NTFS.

If you have all your files backed up (Non-NTFS) After boot fdisk your hard drive first removing starting with 4 and moving back to 1. reboot then start the process from 1-4 follow insturction carefully. If you don't know, ask.

On NTFS just do a cleaninstall and have it remove the partition. Once the OS is installed, you can add a partition.

Remember a NTFS system can read a FAT but FAT cannot read NTFS. the above site is for NTFS.

Good luck

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