No Os Loading From Hard Drive, Part 2 - Compaq Evo N150 Maintenance And Service Manual

Troubleshooting

2.11 No OS Loading from Hard Drive, Part 2

Continued from
Section 2.10,
No OS Loading
from Hard Drive,
Part 1
CD or
diskette in
drive?
Y
Remove
diskette and
reboot.
Boot
from
hard drive?
N
Boot
from diskette
drive?
Y
Access
hard
drive?
Y
Go to
Section 2.12,
No OS Loading
from Hard Drive,
Part 3.
2–14
N
1. Replace hard
drive.
2. Replace system
board.
Y
Done
N
Go to
Section 2.13,
No OS Loading
from Diskette
Drive.
N
Done
Reseat
hard drive.
Access
hard drive?
N
Run FDISK.
Hard drive
partition?
Y
Hard drive
formatted?
Y
Format hard drive
Y
Computer
boot?
Go to
Section 2.12,
No OS Loading
from Hard Drive,
Part 3.
Maintenance and Service Guide
Y
Done
N
Create partition,
then format hard
drive to bootable
C:\ prompt.
N
and bring to a
bootable C:\
prompt.
Load OS using
Restore CD if
N
applicable.