Laptop not booting after partition and installation of Win..

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Thanks for the info, I have already tried the F2 bios settings but
nothing happens.
So it sounds like its the bios that is the problem, is that right?
Is it something which can reset? I have a vague recollection of
something which can be reset on the motherboard by exposing it to ultra
violet light, could this be the solution? I dont know. But as I say,
nothing appears on the screen. I have tried pressing lots of keys to
get something on the screen. I have even left it on in the hope that it
might display a message after being on for a while but this never
happened.

The only way I can see getting around this is by taking the laptop
apart and looking at the insides as nothing loads on the machine so
nothing can be done there.

Anymore ideas?
Thanks.



jimbo Wrote:
> You could try to get into your BIOS setup and change the boot sequence.
> Many laptops go to the BIOS setup by pressing delete or F2 or
> something during initial power up. The fact that you can't boot to a
> floppy indicates something more serious than a messed up boot sector.
>
> Make sure the boot sequence is CD then floppy then hard drive. Or
> floppy
> then CD then hard drive would be OK. If hard drive is first in the
> sequence and something is wrong with the HD, nothing will work.
>
> jimbo
>
> jt7037 wrote:-
> Yeah I have problems booting off the floppy and CD drive.
> How can I restore the XP bootsector?
>
> I have tried booting the machine with both Winxp cd and a floppy
> disk,
> but nothing.
> Something I onloy just noticed is at power on, all the lights flash,
> eg, CD drive, PCMCIA, basically all the operation status lights
> except
> the Hard Disk light which makes me think there is something wrong
> there.
>
> Thanks for your help so far, any more guidance is welcome.
>
>
> Pegasus \(MVP\) Wrote:
> -
>
>
>
> "BAR" BAR@discussions.microsoft.com wrote in message
> news:1EF20FF0-5285-48F0-BDA4-44BC636FA4C4@microsoft.com...-
> For a dual boot configuration to work, one must use a 3rd party loader
> or
> else first install Me and then XP.
>
> The installation process of XP accomodates the setup of dual boot.
>
> To install as you did, Me will overwrite XP files and thus render
> the-
> system-
> useless.-
>
> Not quite. WinME will overwrite the WinXP boot sector (which is
> not a file). It is quite easy to restore the WinXP boot sector - there
> is no question about "rendering the system useless".-
>
>
> -


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jt7037

 

[Jimbo]

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jt7037 wrote:
> Thanks for the info, I have already tried the F2 bios settings but
> nothing happens.
> So it sounds like its the bios that is the problem, is that right?
> Is it something which can reset? I have a vague recollection of
> something which can be reset on the motherboard by exposing it to ultra
> violet light, could this be the solution? I dont know. But as I say,
> nothing appears on the screen. I have tried pressing lots of keys to
> get something on the screen. I have even left it on in the hope that it
> might display a message after being on for a while but this never
> happened.
>
> The only way I can see getting around this is by taking the laptop
> apart and looking at the insides as nothing loads on the machine so
> nothing can be done there.
>
> Anymore ideas?
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> jimbo Wrote:
>
>>You could try to get into your BIOS setup and change the boot sequence.
>>Many laptops go to the BIOS setup by pressing delete or F2 or
>>something during initial power up. The fact that you can't boot to a
>>floppy indicates something more serious than a messed up boot sector.
>>
>>Make sure the boot sequence is CD then floppy then hard drive. Or
>>floppy
>>then CD then hard drive would be OK. If hard drive is first in the
>>sequence and something is wrong with the HD, nothing will work.
>>
>>jimbo
>>
>>jt7037 wrote:-
>>Yeah I have problems booting off the floppy and CD drive.
>>How can I restore the XP bootsector?
>>
>>I have tried booting the machine with both Winxp cd and a floppy
>>disk,
>>but nothing.
>>Something I onloy just noticed is at power on, all the lights flash,
>>eg, CD drive, PCMCIA, basically all the operation status lights
>>except
>>the Hard Disk light which makes me think there is something wrong
>>there.
>>
>>Thanks for your help so far, any more guidance is welcome.
>>
>>
>>Pegasus \(MVP\) Wrote:
>>-
>>
>>
>>
>>"BAR" BAR@discussions.microsoft.com wrote in message
>>news:1EF20FF0-5285-48F0-BDA4-44BC636FA4C4@microsoft.com...-
>>For a dual boot configuration to work, one must use a 3rd party loader
>>or
>>else first install Me and then XP.
>>
>>The installation process of XP accomodates the setup of dual boot.
>>
>>To install as you did, Me will overwrite XP files and thus render
>>the-
>>system-
>>useless.-
>>
>>Not quite. WinME will overwrite the WinXP boot sector (which is
>>not a file). It is quite easy to restore the WinXP boot sector - there
>>is no question about "rendering the system useless".-
>>
>>
>>-
>
>
>
If your BIOS is set to boot floppy and CD before the hard drive, then
the system should boot to a BOOTABLE floppy or CD. And it shouldn't
matter what condition the hard drive is in because the system never
looks at the hard drive.

Are you able to get to the BIOS setup screen? You said you used the F2
BIOS setting but nothing happened. Did the screen come up and did you
check the boot sequence and did you save the settings and exit the BIOS
screen?

Does you system actually go through the POST, and then stall? Or is it
not even doing a POST? If it is not going through POST, then you have a
hardware problem.

jimbo