I have a mates laptop I was updating a Tiny P3 it had 98 which had been upgraded to ME so I had re installed ME and was updating IE to v6 rebooted and it came up with Non System Disk on reboot. After taking the disk out and putting it in my Toshiba and FDISK, Formatting and Re Installing from Scratch Windows ME the disk seemed fine ie stable. On putting it back into the Tiny Laptop again it says non system disk if you go into the BIOS it shows the Drive as Disabled tried resetting default BIOS settings but no difference ?? IMO Im pretty sure the HD controller has gone Would you agree ??

 

No reason why the controller would have gone after an upgrade really, maybe pulling the drive in/out has buggered the connections inside ?
U could try and see if you can get a more up to date bios from Tiny, maybe it needs a "reset".

Sorry can't think of anything else.

Greg

 

have you checked to see if there's a floppy disk in the drive

now THAT would be funny

 

no floppy disk in drive Jim

and the Hard disk still works which makes me think the controller failed and the ie install was just conincidence

 

what happens if you set the HDD settings in bios manually?

does it even seek the drive or does it not spin up at all?

 

HDD cable?

 

hard disk just shows as disabled in the BIOS ???? but you cant change the setting - its a fecking strange BIOS Im more used to Compaq, Tosh and Dell but I have been in all the settings etc and there just isnt anything to change it to enabled which makes me think disabled means it actually broken??

and cant be acble as there isnt one its just a slot in and plug

 

do some googling and searhc the companys tech support section for what DISABLED means... might be something v. simple...

what laptop is it anyway?

 

try getting a bios update for it

 

its a Tiny thus no support what so ever its probably the only one they ever sold

 

what bios does it use? look on THEIR webpage

 

http://support.tiny.com/support/docu...tdid=TDHDR0023

http://support.tiny.com/support/docu...tdid=TDHBU0002

 

mate you are a fecking dancer thank you very much for that