Caluser2000 wrote:Didn't pressing F10 on start up work at all on the original hdd? Some one here would've pointed you to that archive as a few of […]
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Didn't pressing F10 on start up work at all on the original hdd? Some one here would've pointed you to that archive as a few of us here Compaqs of various ages, shapes and sizes. Have use prepared the replacement device or booting afresh with out partitioning(& setting it ti active) or formating? If the replacement drive is within the bios detection range it should pick it up after a cold boot and display something has changed on the system then ask to press F1 to save those changes then it will reboot.
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Similar to this but in this case my cmos battery is dead.
Try using a boot floppy to partition and format the drive or a linux live distro to see if it detects the drive do the hdd set up routine with that.
The drive that came with this was a single partition with dos and nothing else on it, f10 didn't bring anything up. I do get the prompt to save and continue with f1 when changing hard disks, but every disk I put it aside from the fireball gets set as the type 65 and trying to format the drive after booting from a floppy always comes back with being unable to create a partition as there is no space on the drive but it can read that there is a fat32 partition on it. This was with a 2gb, 8gb, 64gb SD card, 240gb ssd, and with a 60gb hdd. Same behavior on all. After I matched the type 65 drive settings to the actual counts on the drive I'm using I'm still getting a drive error f1 to continue but I was able to start a windows install instead of getting a no fixed disks error, but the install has errors in scandisk then fails with crazy beeping and garbage characters.
The reason I was thinking some sector size setting is when I change the cylinder/head/sector counts the bios shows me a drive size in MB that is way smaller then the drive I'm using. I've never dealt a system like this though.