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Debbie - 28 Aug 2004 15:20 GMT

All I have is a recovery disk that came with the computer
and a boot disk I got from bootdisk.com I can see the
hard drive in the bios.
After I initially ran Fdisk, I rebooted and put in the
recovery cd. I got the message the hard
drive is not found, cables may be loose, or I need to run
Fdisk to inizialize the disk.

Next I ran fdisk again and it says I have
one fixed drive and no partitions.

THANKS FOR YOUR HELP-----

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Herbert West - 29 Aug 2004 10:00 GMT

>All I have is a recovery disk that came with the computer
>and a boot disk I got from bootdisk.com I can see the
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>THANKS FOR YOUR HELP-----

Follow these steps:

Boot from floppy disk.

Run FDISK. It will ask:
"Do you wish to enable large drive support? Y/N"

Enter Y

A menu will appear.

choose "1. Create DOS partition or Logical DOS Drive"

It will then ask you if you want to use all disk space for the
partition. Choose Yes.

At this point, you may have to set the partition as active.
After it creates the partition, hit the "escape" key once.
The original menu will reappear.

Choose "2. Set active partition"

You will have only 1 choice of partitions. Set that partition active,
if it already isn't.

Afterward, hit "escape" to end FDISK, then reboot.

Now start the computer with the HP recovery CD in the drive. It
should see the drive and start rebuilding Windows.

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anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com - 31 Aug 2004 00:15 GMT

>-----Original Message-----
>All I have is a recovery disk that came with the computer
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>THANKS FOR YOUR HELP-----

Make sure the HD is "ACTIVE" i.e do all FDISK stuff
If the recovery/boot floppy has scandisk, run it
gudway@charter.net

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