I think step one is to flash the BIOS. The rest is having no bootable device present.
Make the bootable floppy for flashing the latest BIOS - do NOT use any version but the bootable floppy version - too many boat anchors made!! Once the BIOS is upgraded, try the F2 again. You may need to remove the two hard drives (you will the one in the media bay just to use the floppy drive) to get it to boot to the next device in the list.
As for the new drive in the media bay, it needs to be partitioned and have an active partition to be even seen.
Acutally I left the laptop alone
for a day and I tried again
on Sunday night. I was finally able
to get into the BIOS using F2.
Nothing had changed since my last attempt.
All week I had been trying all possible
combinations with no luck.
So things are looking much better. With the
exception of losing 20G of information that was
on the original HD that died. I realized
was a 20G not 10G as in my original posting.
I made the huge mistake of not backing up
everything, only what I thought
was important. In hindsight everything is really
important once you lose it.
Once in the bios I changed the boot sequence to
boot in a normal order floppy/cd rom/internal/
module bay. Previously I had the module bay
booting before the internal.
I placed my new drive in the internal and now I am
reinstalling Window2000 from CD-ROM.
By the way the version of Bios I have is A12.
Would you recommend updating ? I am thinking
that if I get everything working I should just
leave alone it for a while and not mess around with
the bios.
For the dead 20gb drive, you can always try the freezer fix - put the drive into a ziploc bag overnight and be ready to ghost or back up as soon as you take it out - use an adapter harness to put it into a desktop for getting the data off.
I would move to the latest BIOS for the 8000 after you have the computer software/hard drives back to where you are satisfied.
johnallg
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September 13th, 2004 00:00
I think step one is to flash the BIOS. The rest is having no bootable device present.
Make the bootable floppy for flashing the latest BIOS - do NOT use any version but the bootable floppy version - too many boat anchors made!! Once the BIOS is upgraded, try the F2 again. You may need to remove the two hard drives (you will the one in the media bay just to use the floppy drive) to get it to boot to the next device in the list.
As for the new drive in the media bay, it needs to be partitioned and have an active partition to be even seen.
i8000suntrek
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September 13th, 2004 04:00
Thanks for your suggestion.
Acutally I left the laptop alone
for a day and I tried again
on Sunday night. I was finally able
to get into the BIOS using F2.
Nothing had changed since my last attempt.
All week I had been trying all possible
combinations with no luck.
So things are looking much better. With the
exception of losing 20G of information that was
on the original HD that died. I realized
was a 20G not 10G as in my original posting.
I made the huge mistake of not backing up
everything, only what I thought
was important. In hindsight everything is really
important once you lose it.
Once in the bios I changed the boot sequence to
boot in a normal order floppy/cd rom/internal/
module bay. Previously I had the module bay
booting before the internal.
I placed my new drive in the internal and now I am
reinstalling Window2000 from CD-ROM.
By the way the version of Bios I have is A12.
Would you recommend updating ? I am thinking
that if I get everything working I should just
leave alone it for a while and not mess around with
the bios.
Regards,
SunTrek
johnallg
2 Intern
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7.3K Posts
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September 14th, 2004 00:00
For the dead 20gb drive, you can always try the freezer fix - put the drive into a ziploc bag overnight and be ready to ghost or back up as soon as you take it out - use an adapter harness to put it into a desktop for getting the data off.
I would move to the latest BIOS for the 8000 after you have the computer software/hard drives back to where you are satisfied.