Can TR boot with hd removed?
 
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Posted: 17 February 2005 02:54 AM   [ Ignore ]  
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Just got a TR3A without HD.  Plugged in to AC source, when power button is pressed nothing happens. Was hoping to boot off a CD.

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Posted: 17 February 2005 03:26 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]  
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Sounds like there’s a problem other than just a missing hard drive. I can’t imagine a missing HD would prevent a POST.

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Posted: 17 February 2005 07:02 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]  
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you should atleast get the main menu before the computer says “no known disc/hd”  or something like that .  try pressing f2 when it starts up

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Posted: 17 February 2005 07:39 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]  
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Yeah, it definitely doesn’t sound like a HD missing problem. Do you even see the Sony VAIO boot logo?

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Posted: 17 February 2005 07:51 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 4 ]  
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Or maybe your HD’s partition is gone.. you have to re-create it by Fdisk or something similar..

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Posted: 17 February 2005 09:56 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 5 ]  
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He says (or she says) there is no HD. No HD = no boot sector to fail

Make sure the BIOS is set to boot from the CD first. If that fails, then the problem is not so easy to cure

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Posted: 17 February 2005 10:00 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 6 ]  
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[quote author=“jaa668”]He says (or she says) there is no HD. No HD = no boot sector to fail

Make sure the BIOS is set to boot from the CD first. If that fails, then the problem is not so easy to cure

He can’t get into the BIOS, thats sort of the problem.

You should see the BIOS at the least…I agree something else is wrong besides the HDD missing.

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