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Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: J. Steib on July 07, 2005, 10:53:29 AM

Title: Fujitsu Laptop 500 Series
Post by: J. Steib on July 07, 2005, 10:53:29 AM

I have a Fujitsu Lifebook series 500 laptop that I purchased a new HDD because when I tried to load an operating system on the old one it said the operating system was too small. Well, now with the new drive, it says the same thing. When my son told me the system spontaneously lost the operating system, I thought it was a virus, but that can't be because the new drive was clean and formatted. I've tried boot disks, windows 3.1, everything I can think of without success. Can you offer some solutions?

Title: Re: Fujitsu Laptop 500 Series
Post by: Gizmo73 on July 07, 2005, 11:15:21 AM

Have you tried to run the recovery console off the Win XP CD?

[glb]Gizmo73[/glb]

Title: Re: Fujitsu Laptop 500 Series
Post by: J. Steib on July 07, 2005, 11:56:03 AM

I don't have windows xp.

Title: Re: Fujitsu Laptop 500 Series
Post by: Raptor on July 07, 2005, 12:06:32 PM

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the old one it said the operating system was too small.

Unlogical. There is no such thing as an operating system that is too small.

You are not providing us with the correct information.

Title: Re: Fujitsu Laptop 500 Series
Post by: J. Steib on July 07, 2005, 12:14:05 PM

You are right.  It says the HDD is too small.

Title: Re: Fujitsu Laptop 500 Series
Post by: Raptor on July 07, 2005, 12:20:39 PM

I doubt Windows 3.11 would require more than 30MB of Disk space as it fits onto eleven floppies.

You may need to repartition the Hard Disk Drive to create one large partition.

Or perhaps it is failing and can not read all the clusters normally available. Test the Hard Disk Drive integrity by obtaining diagnostic software from the manufacturer.

Title: Re: Fujitsu Laptop 500 Series
Post by: merlin_2 on July 08, 2005, 04:09:55 AM

http://www.fujitsu-siemens.co.uk/rl/servicesupport/techsupport/lifebook/General/OldRecovery.html