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Originally Posted by bojan
Hi guys... maybe someone could help me with my problem 
After a HDD failure (PCMCIA ATA HDD) on my Fujitsu tabletop, I am trying to replace it with flash card... Which is recognized as HDD by the bios from the start when the card is inserted in the HDD slot.
After booting from floppy, the system can use the flash as a C drive without problems.
I even transferred the system to it (by sys c: command), but then the trouble starts: computer does not want to boot from such C drive, it just hangs there... despite all the system files are there and visible via dir command (after booting from floppy, of course). The flash card was formatted before sys transfer...
But wait, there is more... another story is going on in parallel:
I can not use the new PCMCIA ATA HDD's in PCMCIA slot of my desktop to transfer the necessary files (w setup) ..
When I insert the the HD in PCMCIA slot, it finds the new hardware and installes the driver (PCMCIA interface) but after this it does not recognizes it as a separate drive or volume or whatever... so I am sort of stuck here.... Now, I can try to install windows from floppies (have to find them first), but this is a hard work....
What is so special about HD and boot sectors on them? Could flash card have one? and why flash card as it is now does not want to boot? And, what can I do about it?
Does anybody have the driver for PCMCIA ATA HDD? or any suggestion that may help here?
Soo many questions 
Edit: When tried to install the system from floppies, fdisk behaves OK, new partition added etc etc.. but then the setup program says it can not write to boot sector and terminates. |
I don't know the tabletop and the system you were running but why not replace the HDD and start from scratch from your original disks. There are many things I would try but they all depend on the actual computer.
Barry