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Old January 28th 05, 08:11 AM
Brubbz
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Default Non booting hard Drive

Im having a problem booting from my hd. I got it out of a old computer.
when i boot up normally it gives me a "primary hard drive failure". i
cant boot up from a floppy cause im not sure. But if i put in a Fedora
or XP cd it will format the HD and install the OS, but when it restarts
i get the same HD error? Any ideas?
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Old January 28th 05, 03:41 PM
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hi,
you do one thing check boot priority in cmos setup & change startup
seqance first choose had drive.

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Old January 28th 05, 10:16 PM
Bob H
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Brubbz wrote:
Im having a problem booting from my hd. I got it out of a old computer.
when i boot up normally it gives me a "primary hard drive failure". i
cant boot up from a floppy cause im not sure. But if i put in a Fedora
or XP cd it will format the HD and install the OS, but when it restarts
i get the same HD error? Any ideas?


Have you got it set correctly as Primary Master with the jumpers?

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