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Skriven 2010-04-26 02:06:20 av James Bradley (1:342/77.0)
     Kommentar till en text av August Abolins
Ärende: old hdd formatted..
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On or about 04-21-10 19:53, Sean Dennis allegedly uttered "old hdd formatted.."
to August Abolins:

 SD> Wednesday April 21 2010 at 09:54, you wrote to All:

 AA> I formatted a stata drive (via an external USB enclosure set-up) that
 AA> used to contain XPp.  I now reintroduce the hdd into the original pc
 AA> and it reports "NTLDR missing.."; that is what I expect since it is no
 AA> longer bootable.  But, would that preclude the pc to boot via CD-ROM?
 AA> I tried various bootable CDs and none want to work.  The pc bios *is*
 AA> configured to boot off the CDROM first.  Do I most likely have a
 AA> defunct mobo/bios?

 SD> System files aren't on the drive; simply formatting the
 SD> drive won't transfer them.  There's a way to do it, but I
 SD> simply don't remember how these days.

In the DOS days, it was "format c: /s", or thereabouts. There used to be a "sys
C:" command but again, thems were the days. Because a CD wouldn't boot, you
still have no OS to launch from. 

Is the CD-drive/cables/... OK? "SATA as IDE (PATA)" issues in the BIOS??? (SATA
masquerading as an IDE device, and all that malarky... ) Double check your
connectors and HW. After that, look to the MB. (IOW, did you plug it in? Did
you turn it on? }|-) Did you swap the CD-drive *with a known working unit* yet?

PS: I just reread your OP, and the BIOS setting wouldn't be the issue, unless
an errant keypress/cosmic ray entered into the picture... <scratching head> The
SATA drive came out of the unit, was formated in a USB enclosure, and then
reinserted in the original machine? Did you partition it with a new table for
good measure? Why bother to move it outside the box just to format it? WCs idea
to flash the BIOS might be a good last-stab.


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