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Toughbook CF-29, cannot load OS onto HDD

by Tate
(Phoenix Az)

I have 3 Toughbook CF-29's, one of which is functioning.

I bought them with no OS loade onto HDD. I was succesful installing Windows 7 on one with the disk

I bought and external cd drive. the other 2 I have not.I also tried to install withh a floppy disk. it installed and started to boot, saw the windows emblem and then laptop went straight to a command prompt.

I have tried ghosting an image onto a cd, and uploading that, to no avail. And sadly, have failed booting from a USB external drive. any ideas? thank you.

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Mar 13, 2011
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by: Support

Hello Tate,

I went to Panasonic's web site and downloaded the specifications PDF.

The computer has a Intel P4 M processor LV 778. It is a 1.6 GHz processor and the FSB is 400MHz.

Unless you have inceased the memory the basic model came with 512 MB of ram, and a 80 GB Hard Drive.

It came with Windows XP Pro standard.

I would imagine Vista and Windows 7 would have a hard time running on this processor and memory. The recommended processor for Vista is a P4 2.4 GHz and Windows 7 it is a P4 2.8 GHz. Both need a minimum of 1 GB memory.

So to your problem:

If you repartitoned the drives when you installed the OS then the installation program would have set the installation partion to 'Active'.

How ever if you only 'Formatted' the partition then the format program can not set the partition to 'Active'

To do so you will need to either use the install cd and the 'Repair' step to set the partition to 'Active' or a DOS boot disk to use FDISK.COM to run the command: FDISK.COM /MBR

Hope this helps ...

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