Luis.F.Correia wrote:
Boot DOS from a floppy,
type fdisk /mbr
Bingo. As a couple of you kindly suggested,
dos 6.22 fdisk /mbr works when fdisk itself
doesn't always successfully overwrite leftover
bytes in the mbr.
I think I originally fdisked and formatted that CF
in Win98, leading to the
Matt,
I have set up some systems using IDE-CF adapters, and
am amazed at what seems to trip me up in various
configurations. I had one motherboard that would not
boot the CF no matter what I did, until I found and updated
the bios (this was an older PII motherboard). I currently
have a Pentium 1
Try this:
Boot DOS from a floppy,
type fdisk /mbr
any errors?
Also instead of setting the HD to AUTO, run the BIOS autodetect.
It helps!
The bios boot order is correct? 1st Floppy, 2nd HDD
If all the above fail, test the CF as slave in the primary IDE channel
(/dev/hdb)
My friend has a SanDi
