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From: gmat@wuibc.UUCP (Gregory Martin Amaya Tormo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Compaq Deskpro 8086
Keywords: Won't Boot From Hard Disk.
Message-ID: <288@wuibc.UUCP>
Date: 24 Sep 88 03:23:15 GMT
References: <10183@vrdxhq.UUCP>
Reply-To: gmat@wuibc.UUCP (Gregory Martin Amaya Tormo)
Organization: Washington University in St. Louis
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In article <10183@vrdxhq.UUCP> tom@vrdxhq.UUCP (Tom Welsh) writes:
>I have a problem.
>
>I have a Compaq Deskpro, 8086-based, with a 20 MB hard disk.  A couple of
>to PC-DOS 3.3.  Since that time, the machine will NOT boot from the 
>hard disk.  It will boot fine from my 3.3 PCDOS floppy.  After booting,
>NOthing.  If I try to boot off the hard disk, it just hangs, forever --
>stick a 3.3 floppy in -- CTRL-ALT-DEL and everything is fine, including
>hard disk access.

	Use FDISK to activate the hard disk partition.  I will bet it shows you
your hard disk partition but not that it is active.  It must be made active in
order for the computer to know to look for DOS.

	dwd0238@wucec1.wustl
	David Deitch, Fido 1:100/22

ps. This is posted since I seem to not be able to mail out (reply) via UUCP.