hardrive installed in compaq system despro do not boot to any other system why?
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Many older Compaq Deskpro computers had a system partition on the first 30 megabytes (or so) of their hard drives.  It was used for BIOS configuration and provided a nice little GUI.  Your new computer may be detecting this system partition and trying to boot to it.\n\nTry booting to a DOS/Win95/Win98 floppy disk and running FDISK.  Make sure your operating system partition is set as the "active" partition.  If you still have problems, you may be able to simply delete it, but make sure you make a backup of your system first (Ghost is great for this stuff).
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if it's the hardDisk pasword, You're stuffed! I don't think you can install a new Hd either!\nIf its just the power on password, hold F8 while booting up and reset it in the Bios.
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I would format the hard drive and start again.\n\nFlashing the bios updates the brain of the poota. I wouldn't recommend that at all. If you get it wrong you then have a big heavy paper weight.\n\n\nXP only runs on NTFS
883340
Do you see the drives in Bios? When your computer boots up press F2 and see if the drives are present there. If it shows up there I cant really imagine as to why your having the problems. Especially if you can boot to the operating system. I wouldn't say its the motherboard controller either for the same reason. Recheck your cables, usually the ide cables for the hard drives will be labeled HD 1 etc. There are usually two connections on an ide cable. Make sure you have the right one connected to the hard drive.
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well if everything is fine, they are working properly no need to understand it ... \n\non the other hand if you have problems, you have to specify what are the problems for us to help\n\nstart your computer and press the <del> key, look under the first option and see if the hd is found. \n\nif your compuer starts but hangs on bootsrap its most likely to be a hd problem.
763363
You want Systray, but I have never heard about others. None of them are running in my computer and its working alright.
222648
Check in BIOS setup if your 1st hard drive is Primary/secondary Master then just remove the Jumper(u can see a black color cap on back side of hard drive where data cable and power cable are connected) and connect the hard dirve.Make sure u connect Data and power cable properly.
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If your BIOS supports it will work. Go to BIOS (when starting up press F2) Go to start up or booting, put whatever you want it to boot to first. Just one thing to be aware of. This will not be as fast as a normal hard drive.
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Start - Run- DXDIAG\n\nThe bios version is unlikely to be recorded on the motherboard.
965456
GO INTO BIOS AND ADVANCED SETUP TELL THE COMPUTER TO SEARCH FOR HARD-DRIVE AND IT SHOULD PICK UP BOTH HARD-DRIVES.
100749
the bios does't read the type of partition it anly reads the capacity space and the harware specification such as (cylinders, hesds, disks) etc...\nThe problem comes fro you hard disk device.\nTri to se him as master by changing the Jumper orientation (that is placed in on the back of the hard drive)\nGood Luck ;)\nohhh\ni forgot\nIf you need help ar online suport visit me at the ID SILVER_CRISS
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Boot in dos type CHKDSK or SCANDISK there might be bad sectors on your hard disk.
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in ur BIOS settings (hope u kno that), choose first boot drive as ATAPI CD ROM DRIVE.\n\nIt will work, provided the o/s installation cd a bootable one ; )
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My guess is that you have a problem with your second hard drive. If you have another that you can swap in, that would be a good test. If it is not the second hard drive, it could be problems with a virus or other malware. Do a thorough virus sweep of all your drives and see what's going on.\n\nGood luck!
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did u install an operating system or not yet ?\n\nif yes, then open "My Computer" if u use windows operating system and right click on each drive and chose properties.\n\nif no, then the easiest way is to plug ur hard drive to another pc which has an operating system and do the same\n\n\ngood luck mate.. ;)
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That Compaq probably came with a utility, so you can MAKE a CD set of the RESTORE disks.   If you have not done that yet, then DO IT.    I have made that set and reinstalled on a new drive numerous times with a Compaq.   Look for the special Compaq tools.  \n\nGood luck and Happy Computing!
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I think you didn't set the jumper of hard disk. make sure one disk is master and other one is slave.