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Rom Manic                  Since: 12-18-05 From: Detroit, WHAT?! Last post: 6285 days Last view: 6285 days |
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| Ok, so I got this recovery disk from a computer techie, so I put it in my PC and reformatted the drive into NTFS. Then the setup loaded all the windows files onto the HDD. Then it rebooted, and told me "Primary Disk 0 not found".
FUCK. Please help me figure this out. |
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Metal Man88 Gold axe It appears we have been transported to a time in which everything is on fire!   Since: 11-17-05 Last post: 6285 days Last view: 6285 days |
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| Mr. McTechie forgot to tell you to set the 'bootable' flag on the main harddrive. You need a disk partition management program to do that. You could get one of many free ones to do such. | |||
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Rom Manic Since: 12-18-05 From: Detroit, WHAT?! Last post: 6285 days Last view: 6285 days |
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| Gah...Why must I jump through hoops now? Windows 98 was so easy to install...
Ok, so I not have to go BACK to Futureshop and get this new Partition Management disk or whatever. What do I do once I have it? |
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BooUrns Buster Beetle  Since: 05-07-06 From: The CS Last post: 6287 days Last view: 6287 days |
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| You shouldn't have to go anywhere to get a disk. There are several free disk management tools available online.
The one I'm familiar with is GParted. Download the LiveCD version and burn it to a CD. |
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FreeDOS + Giant Red Koopa Legion: freedos = fritos  Since: 11-17-05 From: Seattle Last post: 6285 days Last view: 6285 days |
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| The free partitioning programs are often better anyhow, they have far fewer bugs prevaliant. I'd also recommend GParted.
Also, I doubt your "techie" knew what he was doing. OEM-provided recovery discs are only made for a single computer, since it pretty much copies a disk image to your hard disk; Windows pre-setup and everything. Most often, they even have a BIOS check to see if it's the intended computer or not. |
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