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Non system disk error on primary HDD

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by nevernessit

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I have been having some problems with a clients machine and could do with your expert help, so thanks in advance.

When I first got it when it booted up it would say non system disk press any key etc error message. So i removed the hard drive and installed it as a secondary on my test machine. I checked the drive for any data and then formatted the hard drive. It had no errors.
I then put it back into the old system and booted up off a Win98 boot disk. I installed Windows ME without any problems.
But as soon as it rebooted (and I had removed the boot disk) it said Non System Disk error again.
The bios is password protected, so Im just working on getting round this (removed the battery) so I can have a look at the settings in there.
Can anyone suggest a reason this Non System Disk error might keep coming back even though I have installed a OS on it with no drama's. Thanks again.

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by thechas

Could just be a hard drive that is starting to fail.

Is this a Fujitsu drive?

There are some Fujitsu drives that have a problem with the controller chip on the hard drive that can respond just as you have seen.

Chas

by rewrite

when you formatted it in your system was it formatted as a secondary drive and not as an Active Partition? Boot from a bootdisk and run fdisk to check and see it the partition is an active partition or not.

Cheers.

RW

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