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IBM Netvista wont recover

Asked by: CADalyst

I have a IBM Netvista and on bootup I get a invalid system disk error. It will not go into the recovery program..F11
and it also wont go into cmos at boot up..F1
Any suggestions is greatly appreciated

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2003-02-13 at 23:00:19ID20513707
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Answers

 

by: trekie1Posted on 2003-02-14 at 17:04:18ID: 7953998

sorry but we have to ask    did you check for a disk in the floppy drive ?     can you use a bootdisk and boot to an A:prompt   then switch to C: ?   answer these two questions then we can go from there      also any additional info will help

 

by: CADalystPosted on 2003-02-14 at 18:24:37ID: 7954236

Sorry for the vagueness..It was late. Yes..That was the first thing I checked. When I use a boot disk it will not let me access c: drive. When I move drive to test system it will access but being an IBM system drive it checks bios and will not restore outside original system. I think the problem is a bios virus and just wanted to know if on an IBM system if that would cause it to not recognise hard drive. Anyone aware of any free tools that will let me clean virus if thats the problem. I think I will try to flash bios this evening if I can figure which bios it is. It doesnt go through boot screens that would tell me.
Thanks again for any help..

 

by: trekie1Posted on 2003-02-14 at 19:08:26ID: 7954371

wouldn't think so   bios virus is so rare its unlikely the prob;      couple things I would try before fiddling with the bios flash is      try another harddrive and see if its reconized     (have you added any other hardware  lately like maybe another drive ?)      ram can do very strange things like this        in the bios   maybe set it to user instead of auto  or if it has auto detect ide feature let it configure       maybe set it to secondary ide instead of primary     the computer will boot in any order  eg slave /primary/secondary   as long as its the first bootable device it finds.......system restore wont help as long as the computer is not seeing the drive....also maybe try another cable     they do go bad

 

by: CADalystPosted on 2003-02-14 at 19:39:17ID: 7954452

Sorry for the vagueness..It was late. Yes..That was the first thing I checked. When I use a boot disk it will not let me access c: drive. When I move drive to test system it will access but being an IBM system drive it checks bios and will not restore outside original system. I think the problem is a bios virus and just wanted to know if on an IBM system if that would cause it to not recognise hard drive. Anyone aware of any free tools that will let me clean virus if thats the problem. I think I will try to flash bios this evening if I can figure which bios it is. It doesnt go through boot screens that would tell me.
Thanks again for any help..

 

by: gikamPosted on 2003-02-17 at 00:17:59ID: 7964425

do you have the display of 'press F11 to..., press F1 to...., F12...."?
F11 can be made available by creating a recovery floppy
(but needs the recovery partition intact)
F1 must be pressed very quickly

 

by: CADalystPosted on 2003-02-17 at 11:02:42ID: 7968084

Thanks for your advice. I ended up using the recovery floppy and that worked fine. Also thanks to trekie1 for his comments.

 

by: gikamPosted on 2003-02-17 at 21:55:39ID: 7971726

thanks

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