no rom basic

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Sun Sep 5 16:38:45 1999

One common cause for this message is the lack of an active partition on the
boot drive. If you can attach this drive to another (preferably diskless)
system and read it then perhaps the problem will be solved if you use FDISK
to "make the partition active" before attempting to boot from it. Normally
when you FDISK the drive, it automatically makes the partition active. If
you have more than one partition, it could, depending on what the DOS
version was, decide to let you tell it specifically, without asking whether
you want the partition made active (which you can only do on the "boot"
drive) after telling it how large to make a primary partition. Even the
latest version leaves the partition inactive if you've specified you want to
use less than the whole disk. It does prompt you to make the partition
active or not, though.

Dick
-----Original Message-----
From: Gene V. McNeil <cushite_at_earthlink.net>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Sunday, September 05, 1999 2:01 PM
Subject: Re: no rom basic


>I found this software that can fix the problem, it's called Hard Drive
>Mechanic 3.0 & Bootable Rescue Disk.
>
>Made by Higher Ground Diagnostics, Inc.
>
>I think this will help, if its not to late.
>
>Gene
>cushite_at_earthlink.net
>
>
>
>royston hill wrote:
>>
>> Hi ,can you assist .we have a old 386 with a conner 80 meg HD .We
>needed
>> to clean same and used the zero fill from disk manager on boot up. we
>> got message NO ROM BASIC >SYSTEM HALTED we cannot find anything on
>this
>> error message.or what we did wrong ?????? regards from africa ROY
>HILL
>
>
>
Received on Sun Sep 05 1999 - 16:38:45 BST