hey all...
I've got two hard drives in this tower next to me *pats tower to my left*
I have plugged in the CD-rom and the CD-burner successfully into the CPU according to the bios, and I can boot from the floppy...
But now I have having trouble with the hard drives. The hard drives have been physically set to 'master' and 'slave' like all good HDs should... but its quite erroraneous nevertheless.
Now- I have the white cord thingy going from IDL1 (there is not IDL0) from the motherboard to the HD(s) like this:
One HD at a time
HD-b attempt one: when only HD-b is plugged in using the
middle and
end clips I get a "Primary slave hard disk fail" error
HD-t attempt one: when only HD-t is plugged in using the
middle and
end clips I get a "Primary master hard disk fail" error
Lets try both!
HD-both attempt one: I have HD-b connected to the middle clip and HD-t connected to the end clip.
No error where the hard disk fail was!
Next screen > "Verifying DMI pool data ......."
"NTLDR is missing"
"Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart"
HD-both attempt two: I have HD-b connected to the end clip and HD-t connected to the middle clip.
Next screen > "Verifying DMI pool data ......."
"NTLDR is missing"
"Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart"
...so same as before.
Boot from floppy
I saw you need to copy the sys.com file to the HD if the NTLDR error occurs...
Okay, I have "A:\>
sys c: [enter]"
Invalid drive specification
Resolution?
Okay- what do I do? Anyone know?
a hard drive saga
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