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@Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 20:08:24 +0300 (MSK)
Subject: Re: Thinkpad Won't Boot?
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On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 15:39:46 -0000, Tom Lee Mullins wrote:

>I had deleted the mmos2 directory and re-installed it
>(this was an attempt to get the ES488 audio to work).
>Now it won't boot at all. It stops at the diskette drive
>(it is suppose to go from diskette drive to hard drive
>when there isn't a diskette in it). I tried reformating
>the hard drive and re-installing Warp ver 3. It gets
>to the part where it is suppose to restart the computer
>then finish the installation. It does not get pass the 
>diskette drive (the light stays on). I used utilitie
>diskettes to boot from and different diskette drives for
>my Thinkpad 760el. The hard drive checks out okay when
>I use chkdsk with /f but it won't boot. Is this an
>indication that the hard drive is bad? (not a loss since
>it seems kinda - relatively - small [only 2gig]).

Ensure that you haven't trashed the master boot record (try FDISK
/NEWMBR to fill it with a "fail-safe" default setup). Usually if the
drive goes bad, there should be more than a single error, meaning it
will definitely attract one's attention when doing CHKDSK /F:3 or FORMAT
/L. But if nothing helps, replace the drive.



 

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