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    Laptop not booting

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by daj, Apr 26, 2008.

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    Hi

    I'm new to this so please bear with me.

    I have several issues with a laptop - a Compaq Evo N400c. My problem at the moment is that I'm trying to load up a new operating system onto the HDD but I'm having problems. Its a new HDD, which tests ok on the laptop.

    The problem is I can't load up a new operating system because I can't seem to get the lsptop's floppy or CD drive to work properly. They both seem to work ok in that they whirr up and I've checked connections and all seems ok, but neither seems to read correctly. I get error messages - non-system disk or disk error seems to be the one at the moment.

    As I couldn't get the floppy and CD drives to work I connected the laptop HDD to my desktop pc and loaded the operating system (Win2K) that way but I got a missing NTLDR error.

    Now I just seem to get the non-system disk error every time. I've changed the bios boot up settings to load from floppy 1st or Cd 1st or HDD but I get the same error message - non-system disk.

    Can anyone help?

    Many thanks
     
    daj, Apr 26, 2008
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