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Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: randyei on May 29, 2005, 02:03:19 PM

Title: HARD DRIVE DELETED.....
Post by: randyei on May 29, 2005, 02:03:19 PM

MY HARD DRIVE WAS DELETED.....
SO I RAN FORMAT.EXE AND ACCIDENTLY FORMATED
FLOPPY..OPPS...

NOW WHEN I TRY TO TYPE IN ANY COMMAND I GET THE:
DEVICE NOT READY-ABORT-RETRY-FAIL?

I HAVE NO START-UP DISC JUST THE INSTALL- CANT USE GET THE ABOVE MSG !!

HOW DO I GET TO A >prompt TO TRY AGAIN?

Title: Re: HARD DRIVE DELETED.....
Post by: Raptor on May 29, 2005, 02:18:04 PM

Either through Boot CD-ROM or Boot Diskette.

Title: Re: HARD DRIVE DELETED.....
Post by: dl65 on May 29, 2005, 04:13:37 PM

randyei....... What operating system are you trying to install .......?

let us know

dl65  ::)

Title: Re: HARD DRIVE DELETED.....
Post by: randy on May 30, 2005, 01:25:15 AM

Quote

MY HARD DRIVE WAS DELETED.....
SO I RAN FORMAT.EXE AND ACCIDENTLY FORMATED
FLOPPY..OPPS...

NOW WHEN I TRY TO TYPE IN ANY COMMAND I GET THE:
DEVICE NOT READY-ABORT-RETRY-FAIL?

I HAVE NO START-UP DISC JUST THE INSTALL- CANT USE GET THE ABOVE MSG !!

HOW DO I GET TO A >prompt TO TRY AGAIN?

Title: Re: HARD DRIVE DELETED.....
Post by: randy on May 30, 2005, 01:36:30 AM

ok....well it was win2000-but there was missing files on it and that was a waste of time...
I am gonna put win95 on for now....

I used the 95 boot disc...ran the install/setup file:didnt work...
ran fdisk...and got this: "NO FIXED DISC PRESENT"

So i have a request in for the updated BIOS-CMOS....ect
for the cpu company...and once I get them i should be able to run another format...with a new startup disc...

SO IF YOU KNOW OF ANY OTHER WAY.....
Bye4now

Title: Re: HARD DRIVE DELETED.....
Post by: uisqueathus on May 31, 2005, 04:54:38 AM

it could be that your disc is formatted as NTFS for Windows 2000 and that as you are now trying to install windows 95 that operating system "win95" cannot recognize ntfs. you may have to get a software utillity to back format to Fat or Fat32