on Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 05:20:48AM -0500, Fu-Dong Chiou (chioufd@sas.upenn.edu) wrote: > Hi, > > I am having a very bad problem now. I got a multibay carrier to add a > second HDD on my Compaq LTE 5200 laptop, so I was trying to back up the > filesystem to another HDD. Then, I shutdown the system, and the message > said the system has been halted. I then pulled out the multibay carrier > (to replace with another HDD), but apparently, there is something funny > going on (even though it said the system has halted), the LCD display > went crazy. Anyway, that must have been a grave damage, as now I can no > longer boot the computer. From BIOS setup, I realize that all HDDs are > not being recognized. Even floppy diskettes are not being read. > > Can any one tell me what has happened? Is it possible to fix this > problem? I appreciate any help. Thanks! I'd strongly recommend you contact your vendor. Note that "system halted" is just that -- the operating system is halted. If your computer is still powered, you can do serious harm to it. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ Evangelist, Zelerate, Inc. http://www.zelerate.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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