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John Alm Posted on Jun 11, 2011
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Compaq presario 2594 us laptop , after boot-up get message ( operating system not found) tried recovery disc, will not formate hdd , will get this message in windows set-up , SET-UP WAS UNABLE TO FORMAT THE PARTITION. THE DISC MAY BE DAMAGED. MAKE SURE THE DRIVE IS SWITCHED ON AND PROPERLY CONNECTED TO YOUR COMPUTER . IF THE DISC IS A SCSI DISK, MAKE SURE YOUR SCSI DEVICES ARE PROPERLY TERMINATED . CONSULT YOUR COMPUTER MANUAL OR SCSI ADAPTER DOCUMENTATION FOR MORE INFOMATION. I DONT THINK THE HDD IS BAD I HAD A GOOD SPARE 40GB IDE HDD GOT THE SAME MESSAGE WHEN I INSTALLED SPARE HDD AND TRIED TO RUN THE WINDOWS XP RECOVERY DISC ! I THINK IT MAY BE A BIOS OR SETTINGS PROBLEM ,ALSO LAPTOP HAS 2 256MB MEMORY CARDS INSTALLED BIOS ONLY SHOWS 128 MB OF RAM, PC2 2700 333MHZ CL-2.5 MEMORY CARD INFO

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I've gist had the same problem after flashing bios ...
go to BIOS and change the SATA mode to IDE. it worked for me.
original instructions:
also You have to turn OFF (disable) the boot from network. The error your seeing is result of the network boot rom not finding PXE server to boot from. Again, be sure to disable boot from network.
PLUS it seems if only 128 MB is showing as memory then the memory sticks might be damaged and not able to retain information/data to complete the installation process. Best take them out clean it properly & replace & try again. Nothing to do with BIOS!

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