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Old 30-05-2005, 22:57   #27
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Re: Won't detect HDD

DO NOT low level format your drive unless you want to buy a new one and would like a good big paper weight. Get a dos boot floppy and boot to dos. Run fdisk and make sure that the partition you installed windows on is set as the active partition. The pc always boots the active partition on any given disk. If the wrong partition is marked as active then use the change active partition option to select the correct one. If this doesn't work then get back to the dos prompt and type in


C:> fdisk /mbr

Then try and reboot.
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