presario desktop boot disk
a friend dropped off his compaq presario desktop 5251 after wiping the
harddrive by vaccuming out the case (got the vaccum to close to the hard drive). im attempting to reinstall his system for him but i dont have any of the original software. i have no problem installing xp pro on the machine. it boots to the cd reliably and installs/runs but obviously the machine is a little bit slow and would be better suited with 98/ME. i have every generic MS boot disk (dos/95/95b/98/98se/me) but the machine will not boot to them. every time i try to boot to the floppy boot disk i get an I/O error, "remove disk and press any key to continue". i know the boot disks are good because i can boot my generic computers with them. i can only assume there is some sort of proprietary software required. the bios has no boot order option so i can only assume that it is reading from the floppy but cant say for sure. what am i missing? is it possible to boot a presario with a generic MS boot disk? thanks, -- Nathan W. Collier http://UtilityOffRoad.com http://7SlotGrille.com |
a friend dropped off his compaq presario desktop 5251 after wiping the
harddrive by vaccuming out the case (got the vaccum to close to the hard drive). im attempting to reinstall his system for him but i dont have any of the original software. i have no problem installing xp pro on the machine. it boots to the cd reliably and installs/runs but obviously the machine is a little bit slow and would be better suited with 98/ME. i have every generic MS boot disk (dos/95/95b/98/98se/me) but the machine will not boot to them. every time i try to boot to the floppy boot disk i get an I/O error, "remove disk and press any key to continue". i know the boot disks are good because i can boot my generic computers with them. Its hard to believe the vacuum wiped the drive. Are you sure? How do you know if you can't boot? My gut guess would be that you knocked loose a data cable with the vac... Dale |
hi dale,
the drive was wiped, the cables are fine. as i said i have successfully installed winxp on the drive and it functions, just slower than it would be if it were running ME. -- Nathan W. Collier http://UtilityOffRoad.com http://7SlotGrille.com "DEJ57" wrote in message ... a friend dropped off his compaq presario desktop 5251 after wiping the harddrive by vaccuming out the case (got the vaccum to close to the hard drive). im attempting to reinstall his system for him but i dont have any of the original software. i have no problem installing xp pro on the machine. it boots to the cd reliably and installs/runs but obviously the machine is a little bit slow and would be better suited with 98/ME. i have every generic MS boot disk (dos/95/95b/98/98se/me) but the machine will not boot to them. every time i try to boot to the floppy boot disk i get an I/O error, "remove disk and press any key to continue". i know the boot disks are good because i can boot my generic computers with them. Its hard to believe the vacuum wiped the drive. Are you sure? How do you know if you can't boot? My gut guess would be that you knocked loose a data cable with the vac... Dale |
just slower than it would be
if it were running ME. Sorry--I thought your problem was an error with the FDD, and that it may be cable related, since someone had been poking around in the unit with a vac.... Dale |
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