Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 18:04:22
From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need some urgent Libretto 50CT help...
below...
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>To: Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: Need some urgent Libretto 50CT help...
>Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 08:00:30 -0800
>
>Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 15:48:21 GMT
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: Need some urgent Libretto 50CT help...
>
>
>Neil,
>
> I tried thata this morning and has no luck. I pulled out the drive and
>turned on the 50 with out the pcmcia floppy. After a while it gave the
>"Please insert disk.." message. I turned it off, inserted the new
ok so far...
hd,
>turned it on. Waited and waited, got the "Please insert disk..",
um...not good...
turned it
>off, put in the pcmcia floppy, turned it back on. I got the "Please insert
>disk.." message, but could not access the floppy. Also, I noticed that
um...very not good...does it see the disk when you try and load the bios?
I've not gone beyond 6.5, does everything i need to do :)
>that "please insert.." message appears somewhere in the middle of the bios
>init, because it doesn't even prompt me for the bios password.
that doesn't surprise me, it's almost *got* to check the hardware before
running the OS
> This is really very weird, as the HD does indeed work.. could it be that
>it's failing because I've formatted already on a different machine? Should
There should be no problem there...don't *ever* low-level format an IDE disk
(actually you'll have a job getting the software to do it, it's
manufacturer/type specific)
>I low level it? How does the Libretto bios detect that it needs to create
>the hibernation partition... :-)
It sees how much it's got, and when the format program asks the bios how
much to format, it lies to windows. This is not a sin :)
Thinks - is this one of the disks that has a master/slave select
requirement? (I'm pretty certain it's a standard tosh drive)
Did you format it as a slave in the desktop?
Neil
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