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I have a Compaq laptop running WindowMe that boots to no operating system
found. When I use boot floppy it finally initializes after 5 minutes or so.
It will not see the HD with the exception of one time I was able to check
the directories in C:. Will not boot from a cd with xp on it either. Seems
like the symptoms keep changing. The first problem was Drive I/O error or
something similar. Then it went to the No OS error message. The bios on
this doesn't give much info. Just allows you to change boot sequence and
times. Just before it goes to setup bios I do see boot screen with hd and
cd and such. Shows hd as Toshiba drive 0. Any ideas? thanks, Ray
I have a Compaq laptop running WindowMe that boots to no operating system
found. When I use boot floppy it finally initializes after 5 minutes or so.
It will not see the HD with the exception of one time I was able to check
the directories in C:. Will not boot from a cd with xp on it either. Seems
like the symptoms keep changing. The first problem was Drive I/O error or
something similar. Then it went to the No OS error message. The bios on
this doesn't give much info. Just allows you to change boot sequence and
times. Just before it goes to setup bios I do see boot screen with hd and
cd and such. Shows hd as Toshiba drive 0. Any ideas? thanks, Ray