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[Ken T]

just occasionally a duff hard drive will prevent a machine form booting. Some older Tosh's have just one hardrive/CD channel and use master/slave switching, so if the HD is stuffed it will stop the CD form working properly. Try pulling the HD and trying to boot from CD.

Ken

[cem_devecioglu]

Original W2K Cd's were bootable..

may be this will give some idea..

http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=297

[Bandit127]

Stoopid question maybe - but does the BIOS have a valid entry for the HDD type? There should be cylinders and heads mentioned with real looking numbers...

BIOSses of that sort of age needed a 'manual detect' if they lost that info.

[jereboam]

Stoopid question maybe - but does the BIOS have a valid entry for the HDD type? There should be cylinders and heads mentioned with real looking numbers...

BIOSses of that sort of age needed a 'manual detect' if they lost that info.

Not a stupid question, but I've just checked and it's all there -12073MB in 23579236 sectors.  Not a huge disk - the biggest the machine will support is 20GB.  I've got one of those ready to install, just not got round to it for the last 18 months.

just occasionally a duff hard drive will prevent a machine form booting. Some older Tosh's have just one hardrive/CD channel and use master/slave switching, so if the HD is stuffed it will stop the CD form working properly. Try pulling the HD and trying to boot from CD.

Ken

That's what I think is happening.  But the HD isn't accessible without opening the case, and I've never done that before, so it's a last resort for me - I'm not all that good at that sort of thing these days.

Original W2K Cd's were bootable..

That's what I thought - but my memory isn't so good these days.

[eddie]

Have you tried a Linux cd.

http://partedmagic.com/wiki/PartedMagic.php

eddie

[jereboam]

Have you tried a Linux cd.

http://partedmagic.com/wiki/PartedMagic.php

eddie

Go wash your mouth out

Haven't I got enough problems?

[Ken T]

What is it ?, make and model?. Tomorrow, I'll see if Dave and I can work out the easy way to get the HD out.

Cheers Ken

[ngrainqey]

As above change the bios to boot from cd/dvd ( i know on my lappy i press F2 during boot to get into bios settings ) or failing that maybe the hard disk is fubar  :-/

think the term is corrupted

usually things like that just require the hard-drive reformatting with the operating system software then works fine... till the next time you have to do it

[Ken T]

Actually we use Linux a lot to check out machines with booting problems. It generally works without any problems and is so much faster and reliable than "the other OS company's products". I tend to use Knoppix, and Dave uses a variety of Tiny Linux's.

Ken

[eddie]

Go wash your mouth out Sad

Haven't I got enough problems? Sad Sad Sad

 

Using PCLinuxos and Mint (Gnome).  No  ms stuff in this house!

eddie