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Question I have an old Toshiba Tecra computer that I am having some problems with.
It is a Toshiba Tecra 510cdt with bios version 2.30. It is unable to boot from a cd until I can update the bios which may be impossible because it is a 1997.
Its hard drive was completely unusable so I got a different hard drive. I can't access the bios I have tried pressing or holding the keys, escape, insert, delete, f1, f2, f10 and f12 while it was booting up. Whenever I turn it on, it says "Warning: resume failure press any key to continue. I then boot it from a Windows 98 start-up disk (because it is all I can do). Fdisk does not recognize the new hard drive and says "No fixed drives present." I have tried reinserting the drive with the battery out and it didn't help. Format.com said that the C: drive has no partitions to format and scandisk reports no error with the hard drive. How can I reformat this hard drive to install an operating system onto it?
I need it to be in three fat16 partitions (all of 2gb). It is only a 6gb hard drive.
Answer Hi Jason,
The last time I had your problem, the jumpers were set wrong on the hard drive. Some drives need to be jumpered for `master' and others for `only drive installed'. Never set them for `cable select'. If there is no jumper selection key on the hard drive, try Google. One of the tech support sites will probably have them.
Also make sure the IDE ribbon has the stripe next to pin 1 on the motherboard and the power connector slot on the hard drive.
If all of this fails, the drive is probably defective.
