[pchelpers] Re: Funny windows install message

Hi John,

You are not loosing it, as I have had the same problem once when I formatted
the harddrive and some tech brother fixed it, but I don't know how. He did
all kinds of things. Could it be that he flashed the BIOS? 

I hope you find some solution.

Debora Inklaar

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Subject: [pchelpers] Funny windows install message


I am fixing a PC for a man who has done no maintenance on his system 
since it was bought. Instead he ran it to a standstill and asked me to 
fix it.

To make a long story short, I have booted from floppy, reinitialized the 
hard drive, formated part of it under W98 in DOS mode.

After rebooting with the windows CD there is a message that reads: 
"Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer etc".
The drive is showing up in BIOS and accessible from DOS. I would 
appreciate some insight on this. Am I losing it or what?
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