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I have a compaq PIII desktop computer with two HDs a FD and a CD drive installed. I needed to format another HD so I uninstalled the CD drive and replaced it with the other HD and ran FDisk from a floppy on the other HD. Then Uninstalled the other HD and reinstalled the CD drive. Now I cant boot from my original HD and once the BIOS fails other boot options I get

Non-System disk or disk error
replace and strike any key when ready
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I have checked the boot order and there arent any prioblems there and I don't know what I should do. Any ideas?

Hopefully, you didn't format the wrong disk.

NO thats not the case I olny formatted once and I tested the other HD in another comp afterwards and i was formatted.

What's the OS? If it's XP, boot from the CD to the recovery console and try "fixmbr" and "fixboot c:" (without the quotes).

It'd be nice to know if you can see your boot drive in the BIOS and your files via a boot CD or floppy disk too.

Which drive did you format? C, D, E, or F?

Run FDisk again and make sure the proper partition is set as Active.

And do be sure to double-check that ribbon cable. Make sure its properly inserted into the hard drive, with pin 1 (the colored wire) facing the power connector.