-=PCTechTalk=- Re: laptop reformat
- From: "Darryl" <minoddy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2002 23:20:27 +1000
I dont know if the below is to copy the cd to c .
I am guessing the same you cant have a cdrom and both a floppy at the same
time ? regardless if thats the case or not, copy the contents of the win
directory, or win9 something I think it is, as you dont need the whole cd,
or you could copy the whole cd to the c drive. I am guessing you have a
floppy, which you can boot from and have booted from.
Boot as you did, from the floppy, dont worry about cd rom support as the
contents of the cd rom oare on the hard drive, dont worry about going to the
BIOS to change the boot order, when at the prompt, change to the c drive and
or the directory holding the contents you copied from the cd and type setup
or setup.exe, I am not sure which one it is, you should have windows
starting to install
Darryl
----- Original Message -----
From: "nightsneak"
>
> Thanks suzanne,
>
> I got the boot disk copied to C:, but I cannot get into BIOS?? F1 is the
key
> specified for my laptop setup, but I only get the screen to load with or
> without CDROM drivers? I also tried delete and F8, same screen. If I load
it
> with the drivers, it goes to a C: prompt and when I try to tell it to go
to
> setup in A, B, C, D, or E drive, I get failed to read drive? I tried DIR
on
> all of them, and it is not seeing the Windows CD anywhere.
>
> nightsneak
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "suzánne" >
>
> |
> | hey ns... good to see you back again!
> |
> | laptops have [unfortunately] turned out to be one of my specialties...
> | lol... no one else likes to fool with them.
> |
> | if you don't have a cable that will allow you to have both cdrom and
> floppy
> | present, the best way I have found to get around this is to copy the
> | contents of your boot disk to your freshly formatted c drive. shut down,
> | insert cdrom, boot, change BIOS to boot from c. this should allow for
the
> | loading of needed cdrom drivers so that you are able to get your OS
> | installed. note the *should*... sometimes this doesn't work.
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