gdsully

I don't think there is actually anything wrong with the floppy or cdrom in the original computer. They both worked fine once the original computer had booted successfully into NT. The complication is that on the original computer, I cannot boot into the BIOS... I cannot get into the settings to check/modify the boot order... Computer prompts me to press f10 to enter bios, and appears to be headed in that direction (text "setup" appears in lower right corner after pressing f10 at post), but never enters bios. It continues thru scsi detect and hangs after finding scsi HD and tape. Cursor blinking in upper left is the end point. Jerry

I have an older Compaq Deskpro workstation that will no longer boot in WinNT Workstation. I wanted to make an image of the SCSI hard drive, but was roadblocked by non-bootable floppy and cdrom. So I removed the HD and hung it in another box - a server. I unplugged the scsi cable from scsi backplane of the server and landed it directly on the HD and booted the server. The drive was not recognized, so I aborted and returned the drive to its original machine. From this point on, the drive hasn't booted. The drive is recognized during post, but stops with a blinking cursur in upper left corner of the screen. No error messages of any kind. I put a different scsi drive in this Deskpro and it boots, so I believe PC and controller are relatively OK. I now have this problem drive in another Deskpro workstation to run diagnostics. The drive's data is accessible. The C partition is marked as active. What is the problem? jerry