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Non booting hard Drive

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Anonymous
a b G Storage
January 28, 2005 5:11:31 AM

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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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Anonymous
a b G Storage
January 28, 2005 9:41:48 AM

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hi,
you do one thing check boot priority in cmos setup & change startup
seqance first choose had drive.
Anonymous
a b G Storage
January 29, 2005 12:16:42 AM

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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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