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Compaq Laptop won't boot to CD.
My Compaq Laptop with a one bay floppydrive/cdrom, one day, will not
boot up to windows 2000 Pro. It will not boot up to the install CD when trying to reinstall window 2000. The laptop was originally Windows 95, then later upgraded to 98 and now 2000. Even after I set the BOIS to allow the CD-ROM to be the first to boot it will not see any bootable CD. I don't have the restore CD. The reason for reinstalling is because the operating system won't boot up. It hangs. It will boot up to the boot diskettes. After running the win2000 boot diskettes I choose "R' for repair but I get, "cannot find hard drive." I'm trying to get to a command prompt so I can copy the disks to the hard drive but not sure how to get into the command prompt. What are some other ideas I can try? Thanks. |
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Compaq Laptop won't boot to CD.
wrote in message ups.com... My Compaq Laptop with a one bay floppydrive/cdrom, one day, will not boot up to windows 2000 Pro. It will not boot up to the install CD when trying to reinstall window 2000. The laptop was originally Windows 95, then later upgraded to 98 and now 2000. Even after I set the BOIS to allow the CD-ROM to be the first to boot it will not see any bootable CD. I don't have the restore CD. snip you need to go into the bios and see if you can re-detect the harddrive and cdrom... it appears that they both have not been detected. If one device is detected only... it's indicative of the other having failed... otoh: if neither is detected...it may be a controller problem the only good news is that if the controller failed... your data on the HD is still there! |
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Compaq Laptop won't boot to CD.
Additionally, it may be that you simply don't have a bootable CD in the
drive. The Windows 2000 Setup disk should be bootable but your disk might be damaged. You should be able to boot into DOS from either a floppy or CD. -- - Gary Chanson (Windows SDK MVP) - Abolish Public Schools "philo" wrote in message ... wrote in message ups.com... My Compaq Laptop with a one bay floppydrive/cdrom, one day, will not boot up to windows 2000 Pro. It will not boot up to the install CD when trying to reinstall window 2000. The laptop was originally Windows 95, then later upgraded to 98 and now 2000. Even after I set the BOIS to allow the CD-ROM to be the first to boot it will not see any bootable CD. I don't have the restore CD. snip you need to go into the bios and see if you can re-detect the harddrive and cdrom... it appears that they both have not been detected. If one device is detected only... it's indicative of the other having failed... otoh: if neither is detected...it may be a controller problem the only good news is that if the controller failed... your data on the HD is still there! |
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Compaq Laptop won't boot to CD.
"Gary Chanson" wrote in message ... Additionally, it may be that you simply don't have a bootable CD in the drive. The Windows 2000 Setup disk should be bootable but your disk might be damaged. You should be able to boot into DOS from either a floppy or CD. -- - Gary Chanson (Windows SDK MVP) - Abolish Public Schools re - your signature ... in my town they want to "renovate" all 5 schools - cost = 285 million friggin dollars. Movin on out. |
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Compaq Laptop won't boot to CD.
"- Bobb -" wrote in message . .. "Gary Chanson" wrote in message ... Additionally, it may be that you simply don't have a bootable CD in the drive. The Windows 2000 Setup disk should be bootable but your disk might be damaged. You should be able to boot into DOS from either a floppy or CD. -- - Gary Chanson (Windows SDK MVP) - Abolish Public Schools re - your signature ... in my town they want to "renovate" all 5 schools - cost = 285 million friggin dollars. Movin on out. Well, they're just looking out for the welfare of ... ... the contractors. -- - Gary Chanson (Windows SDK MVP) - Abolish Public Schools |
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Compaq Laptop won't boot to CD.
Gary Chanson wrote:
"- Bobb -" wrote in message . .. "Gary Chanson" wrote in message .. . Additionally, it may be that you simply don't have a bootable CD in the drive. The Windows 2000 Setup disk should be bootable but your disk might be damaged. You should be able to boot into DOS from either a floppy or CD. -- - Gary Chanson (Windows SDK MVP) - Abolish Public Schools re - your signature ... in my town they want to "renovate" all 5 schools - cost = 285 million friggin dollars. Movin on out. Well, they're just looking out for the welfare of ... ... the contractors. -- - Gary Chanson (Windows SDK MVP) - Abolish Public Schools Whose welfare are private schools looking out for? John |
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Compaq Laptop won't boot anything.
retitled subject - it won't boot anything - right ?
wrote in message snipped The hard drive is old and failing but I would want to try revive it. It has worked for many years until it was upgraded to windows 2000 Pro then only a few days later it will boot up halfway into windows and then hangs. 1. Any data on there you care about ? If so get an adapter and move the drive to desktop PC. 2. Win 95 !! - what model laptop ? what specs ? 3. Is this a replacement disk drive ? My reason for asking is BIOS may not recognize a drive over 2gb and if you just popped in a 10gb drive, the PC may not see it. 4. did you format hdd ? or upgrade OS ? 5. So was Win2000 fully installed successfully? a. Using MSFT CD or Compaq ? b. You found all the drivers ? c. and it was working for a few days ? 6. if you boot a win98 floppy disk, can you then "get to C" ? A:\ " dir c: " or A:\ " CD C: " |
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