Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!tektronix!uunet!wucs1!wuibc!gmat 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 Lines: 18 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.