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"No Boot Disk" error on old Compaq LTE Notebook
I have an old Compaq LTE notebook - the Pentium with a 90MHz chip. I
could never get the thing to work right, so I'm trying to Craigslist it. However, I can't get Win95 to boot up. Even though the HD shows up on the system configurator, the notebook simply refuses to recognize it on boot - I get this messgae that says "No Boot Disk". Can I assume that the HD is just dead, or is this a CMOS problem? I'd like to maximize this machine's worth before I get rid of it. Suggestions appreciated. |
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"No Boot Disk" error on old Compaq LTE Notebook
Have you tried "sysing" the drive? Get a bootable floppy disk which also has
the file sys.com on it. Boot with that diskette and at the A: prompt, type sys C: This will transfer the system files to the boot sector of the hard drive. Then remove the floppy disk and reboot. HH "FatKat" wrote in message oups.com... I have an old Compaq LTE notebook - the Pentium with a 90MHz chip. I could never get the thing to work right, so I'm trying to Craigslist it. However, I can't get Win95 to boot up. Even though the HD shows up on the system configurator, the notebook simply refuses to recognize it on boot - I get this messgae that says "No Boot Disk". Can I assume that the HD is just dead, or is this a CMOS problem? I'd like to maximize this machine's worth before I get rid of it. Suggestions appreciated. |
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"No Boot Disk" error on old Compaq LTE Notebook
On Feb 13, 7:43 am, "HH" helpfully
suggested: Have you tried "sysing" the drive? Get a bootable floppy disk which also has the file sys.com on it. Boot with that diskette and at the A: prompt, type sys C: This will transfer the system files to the boot sector of the hard drive. Then remove the floppy disk and reboot. Thanks - though I didn't get to try out your suggestion. Instead, I went into system setup and found out that the unit wasn't set to boot from the HD. I don't know how that happened, because it had been set to start from the HD before, I wouldn't have changed that. On repeated boot attempts afterwards, the unit powered up and entered Win95 normally, so i guess the CMOS battery is also okay. Again, thanks for your response. |
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"No Boot Disk" error on old Compaq LTE Notebook
On Feb 12, 9:29 pm, "FatKat" wrote:
I have an old Compaq LTE notebook - the Pentium with a 90MHz chip. I could never get the thing to work right, so I'm trying to Craigslist it. However, I can't get Win95 to boot up. Even though the HD shows up on the system configurator, the notebook simply refuses to recognize it on boot - I get this messgae that says "No Boot Disk". Can I assume that the HD is just dead, or is this a CMOS problem? I'd like to maximize this machine's worth before I get rid of it. Suggestions appreciated. It's been a problem child since day one? Just wipe the drive, with a program like DBAN, and sell it for around $20. Disclose it's true condition, and state AS-IS. And you'll be fine. http://dban.sourceforge.net/ |
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