Coach Williams Posted June 13, 2004 Share Posted June 13, 2004 I have 4 hard drives here and when I plug them in they all say " disk boot error, insert system disk then press enter. " Does this mean : ~They have no operating system installed ~I dropped them ~or they crashed :notworthy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Punani2 Posted June 13, 2004 Share Posted June 13, 2004 were they working before? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coach Williams Posted June 13, 2004 Author Share Posted June 13, 2004 Originally posted by Johnny 'Luscious' Punani were they working before? I don't have a clue they were donated to a computer camp...they didn't need them and the rec. leader gave'm to me..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redskns21 Posted June 13, 2004 Share Posted June 13, 2004 First, make sure that there isn't a floppy disk in your floppy drive. Second, make sure that the drives are being recognized by the system. Go into the system's BIOS and see if they are listed. To get to the BIOS you can usually hit the delete, f10, f12 or f2 as the system is booting up. If the drives are showing up in the BIOS, that means they are OK. If not, you need to check the jumper settings on the drives. If they are the only drive attached to the cable you need to jumper them as a master or single drive. The jumper settings should be listed somewhere on the hard drive itself. The jumper block is usually between where the ribbon cable and power cables plug in. Let me know if you need any more questions answered. I'll see what I can do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Redskin Posted June 13, 2004 Share Posted June 13, 2004 I'm guessing it is on a PC. best advice I can give you is to stay away from windows. apple makes a much more secure operating system. look into unix and lenix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweet Sassy Molassy Posted June 13, 2004 Share Posted June 13, 2004 Originally posted by lookoutforlavar I'm guessing it is on a PC. best advice I can give you is to stay away from windows. apple makes a much more secure operating system. look into unix and lenix He is right ya know? Apple's OS is much more stable than Windows, really any Unix variant is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Punani2 Posted June 14, 2004 Share Posted June 14, 2004 and here come the Apple geeks... There is no operating system on the drives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkinsNumberOne Posted June 14, 2004 Share Posted June 14, 2004 Originally posted by Johnny 'Luscious' Punani and here come the Apple geeks... There is no operating system on the drives. do what redskns56 said (check the floppy drive and really any other drive for a disk, since the bios could have the boot order set to check other drives first-- make sure the drives are empty)... then check the bios itself to see if the hard drives are recognized/listed... and then if nothing shows up, the guess with that much info is punani's - no OS on the drives, you need to install one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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