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kronk Nervous Wreck (II) Inmate From: Sydney, Australia Insane since: Jun 2004	posted 07-21-2004 14:45 i have been trying to get an old pc working for someone and was having trouble with the mouse (usb) installation, i ran the usb config program and after about a minute, the machine re-booted, then when searching for primary/secondary drives could not find any. NONE! according to the startup there is no HDD installed on the machine. i ran fdisk from win98 boot disk and it could not open necause there was no drive to 'fdisk' on. i have never seen this happen before. if anyone copuld explain it to me it would be great. if someone could tell me how/ if i can fix fix it, it would greatly be appreciated this question is not related to the bios question, thanks
InI Maniac (V) Mad Scientist From: Somewhere over the rainbow Insane since: Mar 2001	posted 07-21-2004 15:48 The poster has demanded we remove all his contributions, less he takes legal action. We have done so. Now Tyberius Prime expects him to start complaining that we removed his 'free speech' since this message will replace all of his posts, past and future. Don't follow his example - seek real life help first.
kronk Nervous Wreck (II) Inmate From: Sydney, Australia Insane since: Jun 2004	posted 07-21-2004 16:11 i should have been more specific above, i installed win2K on the machine but no usb support. then after the crash i was using win98 boot disk to access fdisk, but that didnt work

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kronk
Nervous Wreck (II) Inmate

From: Sydney, Australia
Insane since: Jun 2004

posted 07-21-2004 14:45

i have been trying to get an old pc working for someone and was having trouble with the mouse (usb) installation, i ran the usb config program and after about a minute, the machine re-booted, then when searching for primary/secondary drives could not find any. NONE! according to the startup there is no HDD installed on the machine.

i ran fdisk from win98 boot disk and it could not open necause there was no drive to 'fdisk' on.

i have never seen this happen before. if anyone copuld explain it to me it would be great. if someone could tell me how/ if i can fix fix it, it would greatly be appreciated

this question is not related to the bios question, thanks

InI
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: Somewhere over the rainbow
Insane since: Mar 2001

posted 07-21-2004 15:48

The poster has demanded we remove all his contributions, less he takes legal action.
We have done so.
Now Tyberius Prime expects him to start complaining that we removed his 'free speech' since this message will replace all of his posts, past and future.
Don't follow his example - seek real life help first.

kronk
Nervous Wreck (II) Inmate

From: Sydney, Australia
Insane since: Jun 2004

posted 07-21-2004 16:11

i should have been more specific above, i installed win2K on the machine but no usb support. then after the crash i was using win98 boot disk to access fdisk, but that didnt work