- Problem loading Oper Sys on reformatted laptop
- Posted by PhilD on October 18th, 2005
I am a volunteer with AARP Tax-Aide. We do free tax prep for elderly
We were given a couple of older laptops. These units had the dar
drive reformatted to wipe out all data before we received them. Whe
I turned on the machine I got a non-system disk error. I put in
startup disk and I got the A drive prompt. So far so good.
I have a Cd Drive. I put in the CD. I cannot get the prompt to chang
to the CD Drive. I NEED HELP
- Posted by Quaoar on October 18th, 2005
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After pressing the power button, use F2, Del, Esc, F10, (depending on
the computer) to access BIOS setup. Change the boot order to CD first,
providing that the CD is bootable. Hopefully, the CD is an operating
system installation CD.
Q
- Posted by aj on October 18th, 2005
The A: is now acting as C:, so C: is called D: and your CD drive is
almost certainly E:. Everything is moved up one letter until you're
done with the install.
http://www.netpathway.com/~kramer/reinstall.html
- Posted by mike on October 19th, 2005
PhilD wrote:
It would be extremely helpflul to know the make/model of the laptop.
The operating system you're trying to install?
We could assume the CDROM is integrated in the laptop, but that would
be an assumption. It's all about the details.
mike
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- Posted by Barry Watzman on October 19th, 2005
Your startup disk apparently does not have CD-Rom support, you will need
to make one that does. If you just format a disk as a system disk, it
won't have CD-ROM support, but if you make a Startup disk in Windows 98,
it will have CD-ROM support. This is done from Control Panel/Add-remove
programs, there is a "startup disk" tab. Also, note, most (but no all)
Windows CD are directly bootable as CDs without first booting from any
other drive (e.g. either the hard drive or a floppy). All Toshiba
Satellite computers from the "late" 400 series on have the ability to
boot from a CD. "early" 400 series (400 to 435) don't, but are too old
for use anyway. Note that the Toshiba Satellite 300 series is later
than any 400 series.
It's also possible to manually add cd-rom support to a startup disk by
adding MSCDEX.EXE and a driver (usually oakcdrom.sys) to the floppy and
then by adding the appropriate two lines in config.sys and autoexec.bat,
however while it's not difficult, this is beyond the ability of most people.
PhilD wrote:
