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30th Apr 2009, 18:23
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You burn it as an image, that's why it's not working. Try using Imgburn or CDBurnerXP.
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30th Apr 2009, 20:32
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Thank ya Carbon. I got it to work. It's now in the process of wiping. In the tutorial it mentions making a win98 boot disc. How do i do that since the computer has no floppy? I assume I can do it via CD/DVD. Or do i just put in the XP disc and reinstall from there?
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30th Apr 2009, 20:56
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Should reinstall fine from the XP disc.
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1st May 2009, 05:12
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OK, HD clean. I put in the XP disc and I get a looping message that says: Intel boot version blah blah Media test failure, check cable PXE-M0F exiting intel boot mode OS not found.
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1st May 2009, 10:59
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It doesn't sound as though it is recognising your XP Disk as a boot disk ..... if you are certain that your bios settings are correct (i.e. first boot drive = CD), then the XP Disk sounds faulty.
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1st May 2009, 17:02
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I believe its the one that came with the laptop. It's 2 discs, one with the utilities and the other with the OS. Both discs have Microsoft holograms on them. or better put, the whole disc is a funky hologram. As far as booting from the CD first, Im assuming it does since I booted from it to nuke the HD. I push f-10 after turning on the computer and tell it to boot from the CD.
Well, I've tried numorous times and cant get it to boot. I'll get the same error 2 or 3 times and then it just stays on that failure screen. Any suggestions? |
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2nd May 2009, 10:37
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Try removing the CMOS battery and placing it back in, or moving the jumper cap if you know where it is/have the manual.
Then try reformatting and installing again.
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