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hard drive BIOS weirdness...
OK I tried booting with a startup disk in the floppy drive but it still will not boot. I am not exactly sure what is going on. I get no error messages of any kind, all i get is a black screen with a blinking cursor. Someone mentioned on another forum that I should change the jumpers on the...- darrkblu
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- Forum: Microsoft: Windows
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BIOS mis-detected HD size, now it wont boot
Alright, heres a summary of my situation: I just installed Win98SE onto a previously Mandrake Linux machine. Everything was fine until I noticed Win98 was reporting my 8GB HD as a 1.2GB HD. Not a big deal. Checked the BIOS and it had simply detected it wrong. Ran auto-detect and it recognized...- darrkblu
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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hard drive BIOS weirdness...
First time I have run across this in my career. Got a machine that I just installed Win98SE on. Previous to Win98 it had Mandrake Linux on it. Here is my problem: I formatted the hard drive to remove all Linux remnants and installed Win98SE. Installation went smooth and I set it up for my LAN...- darrkblu
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- Forum: Microsoft: Windows
