Hello all,
I have an old Compaq laptop - a 500 mhz in which the HDD carked it - a 5 gb IBM Travelstar HDD.
I got a replacement - a toshiba HDD2918 (about 6.5 gb).
When I turn the power onto the laptop, after a few minutes of the Compaq screen, I get an error "Fixed Disk Parameter Table or BIOS error - system halted".
Nothing else works whilst the HDD is plugged in.
With the HDD disconnected, I can load in the Win200pro boot disks through the A drive - although I am not sure what use that is whilst the HDD is not recognised.
Can anyone offer an ideas as to where I go from here?