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[playboy99]

Hi all,
I am having trouble starting up my computer. First of all when I try to boot it says "insert bottable midea in to drive" I then used my boot disk. It begins to load of the floppy than gives me three options.
1. boot with cdrom support
2. with out

I have done both here is what happens,

1. With cd rom support it starts to load but then it says no drives found aborting. That was the only thing that was differnt when I choose the first option. The rest happens both times
Then it goes through some more setup things and then gives me this message. " Windows 98 has detected drive c: has no valid FAT or FAT32 partition. It tells me to run FDISK I do and then it says "no fixed disk present" then it kicks me out to an A prompt.
Here is a little more info on my computer when booting there is no primary IDE and it dosent detect a cdrom drive.

I am lost so if anybody has any ideas on what i can do to fix this Iwould like to know thanks, MIKE

[grimso]

Maybe your HardDiskDrive is corrupt?

Try first to enter BIOS, try to search for the HDD. In most cases you can also register a HDD manualy. Just enter numbers of clusters, sector and so on..

Some viruses also fuxx up the registration of a HDD.
Have you checked that the cables from the motherboard ---> HDD is correct?
______________________
| [::1::::::::::::::] 2 : : [***3]| HDD
|______________________|

[:::::::::::::::::]
| |||||| 4 | |
| |||||| | |
| |||||| | |
| |||||| | | HDD CABLE,MARKING
| |||||| | |
| ||||||| | |

Make sure the (4)Marking on the HDD Cable is fitted facing towards the (3)powerinput on the HDD.

-Also check the (2)"Jumper setting"
-Also check if it placed in the right slot on the mainboard.


Jumper settings (Master,Slave,Cable select)
---------------------------------------

HDD CABLE 1 (From the motherboard)

1st HDD (C:) ----> Primary Master
2nd HDD/CD ----> SecondaryMaster

HDD CABLE 2 (From the motherboard)

3rd CD/HDD ----> Primary Slave
4th CD/HDD ----> Secondary Slave

Example:

[:::::::::::::] First HDD


[:::::::::::::] CD-Rom /HDD

[:::::::::::::] Motherboard

If this works.. or not:(, let me know.. Think everything is in here (Old text, I wrote several months ago :) it kind basic.. there are several other solutions to this problem.

*Cheers

[eagle]

If you can access your bios. To do that start up, click delete. That will take you into your bios screen. (Note some bios screens may be different in wording) Go to boot sequence make sure your sequence is A,C, etc,,,, Also make sure that the boot up floopy is enabled press esc then f10 say y to save, that should make your cdrom accessiable when you startup.