Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 21:12:37 +0100 (BST) From: "Alan Middleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Basic libretto 110 hard disk upgrade not working!!
Hello, I'm not sure if this list is still active but I'm fresh out of ideas so hopefully someone is still listening :) I recently purchased a Samsung laptop hard disk (http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/SpinPointMSeries/HardDiskDrive_SpinpointMseries_MP0804H_sp.htm) with the intention of resurrecting the libretto 110 and using it as a portal media player. The original 40Gb hard disk upgrade has long since disappeared so I don't have anything to compare it with :( So insert hard disk into libretto - by default the hard disk is a master. Boot off a windows 98 floppy. Run fdisk and make the biggest primary partition I can, 8gb and mark it active, reboot. Boot off the floppy again and format c: /s to include the system start up files. Job done? No, sadly not, when I restart I'm asked to insert a system disk. Boot off the floppy again and I can see drive c: complete with command.com and as I expect it to be when I rerun fdisk (yes it is active, I triple checked). So now what? I don't think I've missed anything in the set up or in the bios config that should cause me these problems. I know I'll need a drive overlay or a more modern os to see the whole hard disk - I'm just struggling to think why it doesn't boot ok on the 8Gb dos partition that is there. I've read the post http://www.technoir.org/libretto/list/2005/msg01253.html where at the bottom there is step by step instructions and I can't see any obvious missing steps. Any ideas or thoughts? Kind Regards Alan ** A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention in human history, with the possible exception of handguns and tequila.
