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Panasonic CF-41 MK1 Pleaaaaaaaaaassssssseeeeeeeeeee HELP :)
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Darran Thornton
Feb 16, 2000, 3:00:00 AM2/16/00
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still no luck with fixing this problem, so here goes again.. the harddrive
packed up and was replaced with a bigger drive, this was formatted fat16 and
the setup41.exe copied to it, the laptop now refuses to recognize the
harddrive, which boots ok in a desktop machine, is there a way to make this
work cos at the moment it wont do anything not even boot from floppy,
anybody HELPPPP!!!!!!, there must be something I can do :((
thanx in advance
Darran
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Charles Stancampiano
Feb 17, 2000, 3:00:00 AM2/17/00
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Hi,
What does Panasonic support say? How big a drive have you installed? You may need a disk manager program to trick the BIOS into overlooking its hard drive size limitation (probably 2GB on this machine). The manufacturer of the hard drive should be able to supply such a program for free (IBM does for sure, I've used it).
On the other hand, it should still be able to boot from a floppy even if the hard drive is not recognized...
Charlie
Darran Thornton wrote in message <88e9hp$kdt$1...@supernews.com>...
What does Panasonic support say? How big a drive have you installed? You may need a disk manager program to trick the BIOS into overlooking its hard drive size limitation (probably 2GB on this machine). The manufacturer of the hard drive should be able to supply such a program for free (IBM does for sure, I've used it).
On the other hand, it should still be able to boot from a floppy even if the hard drive is not recognized...
Charlie
Darran Thornton wrote in message <88e9hp$kdt$1...@supernews.com>...
Darran Thornton
Feb 17, 2000, 3:00:00 AM2/17/00
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I'm still on with Panasonic support at the moment, the drive is only an
814mb drive, so there should not be a problem with size limitations, and it
doesnt get as far as allowing you to get to boot from floppy.. I get a 1780
(Hard Disk 0 Failiure) then a Run SETUP message press f1 to continue when
this is pressed it stops with I9990305 (Operating System Not Found) and just
sits there, the machine worked fine before the original disk was erased..
and was replaced with the one in it now
814mb drive, so there should not be a problem with size limitations, and it
doesnt get as far as allowing you to get to boot from floppy.. I get a 1780
(Hard Disk 0 Failiure) then a Run SETUP message press f1 to continue when
this is pressed it stops with I9990305 (Operating System Not Found) and just
sits there, the machine worked fine before the original disk was erased..
and was replaced with the one in it now
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John Adams
Feb 17, 2000, 3:00:00 AM2/17/00
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Darran,
Is this an old 486? It sounds as though you have a BIOS limitation of an IDE
drive, which is 528MB (which sounded huge in 1995). If this is the case you
have two options
1. Obtain a copy of Ontrack's disk Manager program, which will disable Bios
control and allow you to use the full capacity of the drive (The price you
pay is a loss of base memory). The manufacturer of the drive will usually
supply an OEM copy of this free if you ask them. They check the drive's make
first, and are not interchangeable. Ontrack themselves will charge you for
their program, but it will work with all drives.
2. Use Fdisk to format the drive to 528MB only (Don't try any fancy footwork
like setting a second logical partition to take up the slack:- it may work
in this particular machine but I doubt it).
If this is a 486, you will find this to be plenty of room for the trusty
old DOS6.22/Win 3.11 combination. Install Win32S (freely supplied with many
games) and you will be able to run some (but not all) 32 bit programs, even
when they say "requires Win95".
I hope this helps. Good luck!
Is this an old 486? It sounds as though you have a BIOS limitation of an IDE
drive, which is 528MB (which sounded huge in 1995). If this is the case you
have two options
1. Obtain a copy of Ontrack's disk Manager program, which will disable Bios
control and allow you to use the full capacity of the drive (The price you
pay is a loss of base memory). The manufacturer of the drive will usually
supply an OEM copy of this free if you ask them. They check the drive's make
first, and are not interchangeable. Ontrack themselves will charge you for
their program, but it will work with all drives.
2. Use Fdisk to format the drive to 528MB only (Don't try any fancy footwork
like setting a second logical partition to take up the slack:- it may work
in this particular machine but I doubt it).
If this is a 486, you will find this to be plenty of room for the trusty
old DOS6.22/Win 3.11 combination. Install Win32S (freely supplied with many
games) and you will be able to run some (but not all) 32 bit programs, even
when they say "requires Win95".
I hope this helps. Good luck!
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Darran Thornton
Feb 21, 2000, 3:00:00 AM2/21/00
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yeah it is a 486, and tried what you suggested, without success, on boot the
machine attempts to read the drive, but gives up :(.. the light flashes then
nothing, I know the drive works ok in another machine and the laptop worked
ok before with the smaller drive fitted :((, I'm running out of ideas here,
and further help would be appreciated :) thanx
machine attempts to read the drive, but gives up :(.. the light flashes then
nothing, I know the drive works ok in another machine and the laptop worked
ok before with the smaller drive fitted :((, I'm running out of ideas here,
and further help would be appreciated :) thanx
Darran//
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John Adams
Feb 23, 2000, 3:00:00 AM2/23/00
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Darran,
Here's one more suggestion.
If you simply switch off the laptop when it contains the old drive, the
laptop goes into suspend mode and the the BIOS remembers the settings of
that drive when you activate it. You have to force a reboot to get it to
reassess what it contains. I assume you have already tried Ctrl-Alt-Delete
and that this doesn't work (If it has problems reading the boot drive it
will probably not respond to keypresses). Most laptops have a little button
somewhere which will force a hard reset. (You usually have to use an
unfolded paper clip to get into the small hole). Try next to the AC power
outlet or among the serial/parallel ports.
PS: If this is the problem you may be able to format the full size of the
disk after all.
I hope you get there in the end.
Here's one more suggestion.
If you simply switch off the laptop when it contains the old drive, the
laptop goes into suspend mode and the the BIOS remembers the settings of
that drive when you activate it. You have to force a reboot to get it to
reassess what it contains. I assume you have already tried Ctrl-Alt-Delete
and that this doesn't work (If it has problems reading the boot drive it
will probably not respond to keypresses). Most laptops have a little button
somewhere which will force a hard reset. (You usually have to use an
unfolded paper clip to get into the small hole). Try next to the AC power
outlet or among the serial/parallel ports.
PS: If this is the problem you may be able to format the full size of the
disk after all.
I hope you get there in the end.
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Odin
Feb 25, 2000, 3:00:00 AM2/25/00
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finally cracked it, took the bloody thing apart, desoldered the cmos
battery, left it a while, then put it back together presto, booted from the
floppy, now got win95 installed, still got a few probs, the cd isnt being
recognized, so suppose I'll have to load the dos drivers, cant get to the
floppy either :(, but it's getting there.. anypointers for the problems I
got left ?
battery, left it a while, then put it back together presto, booted from the
floppy, now got win95 installed, still got a few probs, the cd isnt being
recognized, so suppose I'll have to load the dos drivers, cant get to the
floppy either :(, but it's getting there.. anypointers for the problems I
got left ?
TIA
Darran
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