stumped???

need a little help, i have a 6.4 gig hd that had me on it, upgraded the hd to
a 80 gig for me so i decided to use the 6.4 gig for a small private server.

formatted the hd format c: then set it as a slave drive, when i now boot up
it says non system disk please insert original disk or press any key, if i
press any key it goes into windows ok & shows the 6.4 drive, i tried
formatting the hd format c:/s but it will not let me boot up to the c drive
if i mount the drive.

any ideas, it does work because people can download files from it.


da.

John
Tue Feb 01 12:48:55 CST 2005

Check the active partition status with fdisk.

John

Dark Angel wrote:

> need a little help, i have a 6.4 gig hd that had me on it, upgraded the hd to
> a 80 gig for me so i decided to use the 6.4 gig for a small private server.
>
> formatted the hd format c: then set it as a slave drive, when i now boot up
> it says non system disk please insert original disk or press any key, if i
> press any key it goes into windows ok & shows the 6.4 drive, i tried
> formatting the hd format c:/s but it will not let me boot up to the c drive
> if i mount the drive.
>
> any ideas, it does work because people can download files from it.
>
>
> da.

Jack
Wed Feb 02 07:34:14 CST 2005

"How to Use the Fdisk Tool and the Format Tool to Partition or
Repartition a Hard Disk"
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];255867

"Order in Which MS-DOS and Windows Assign Drive Letters"
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];51978

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"John John" <audetweld@nbnet.nb.ca> wrote in message
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> Check the active partition status with fdisk.
>
> John
>
> Dark Angel wrote:
>
> > need a little help, i have a 6.4 gig hd that had me on it, upgraded the
hd to
> > a 80 gig for me so i decided to use the 6.4 gig for a small private
server.
> >
> > formatted the hd format c: then set it as a slave drive, when i now boot
up
> > it says non system disk please insert original disk or press any key, if
i
> > press any key it goes into windows ok & shows the 6.4 drive, i tried
> > formatting the hd format c:/s but it will not let me boot up to the c
drive
> > if i mount the drive.
> >
> > any ideas, it does work because people can download files from it.
> >
> >
> > da.
>

Noel
Wed Feb 02 15:04:51 CST 2005

I suspect you formatted the wrong drive - use FDISK /STATUS to see what
your current status is.

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"Dark Angel" <dark@angel.com> wrote in message
news:OWtBKuICFHA.3180@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> need a little help, i have a 6.4 gig hd that had me on it, upgraded the hd
> to
> a 80 gig for me so i decided to use the 6.4 gig for a small private
> server.
>
> formatted the hd format c: then set it as a slave drive, when i now boot
> up
> it says non system disk please insert original disk or press any key, if i
> press any key it goes into windows ok & shows the 6.4 drive, i tried
> formatting the hd format c:/s but it will not let me boot up to the c
> drive
> if i mount the drive.
>
> any ideas, it does work because people can download files from it.
>
>
> da.