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October 23rd, 2005, 05:45 AM
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hi im new, I have a compaq deskpro en, I am running win98se, I was trying to tidy up my hd and the roof fell in. it will not boot from a: bootdisk or the cd, I went into the bios and changed the boot order to A: 1st still nothing I put cd 1st nothing, I get the following messages, 1782 disk controler failure, media test failure, vfat device initional failure, I ran norton anti virus it found manny junkie virus and repaired then, it said could not repair win.vi9.
so what can I do thanks jim. 
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October 23rd, 2005, 06:15 AM
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Welcome to TechIMO!
what do u mean "the roof fell in" ??
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October 23rd, 2005, 07:01 AM
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Unplug the hard drive, then see if it will boot from floppy or cd. | |
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October 23rd, 2005, 07:43 AM
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Originally Posted by vikeor Welcome to TechIMO!
what do u mean "the roof fell in" ?? | | |
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October 23rd, 2005, 07:45 AM
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paul9 I tryed that still not booting, the a: drive lights up and it whers? a couple of seconds then stops, ho hum. | |
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October 23rd, 2005, 08:54 AM
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Try a cd such as Ultimate Boot CD. http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ http://www.ubcd4win.com/
Remember to burn the ISO file to cd using the Burn DISC IMAGE option of your burning software, otherwise you will end up with an unbootable cd.
You could also try making a new boot floppy on a different machine. Try at www.bootdisk.com. if you can't find a machine you can make a boot floppy on.Use a fresh, new floppy disc, and use a floppy drive cleaner disc on the drive before you retry, if you go with floppy booting.
What cd did you last use to try to boot from? Most discs are not bootable. | |
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October 25th, 2005, 03:35 AM
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October 25th, 2005, 08:53 AM
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For everyone that is not sure what is ment by "the roof fell in" it is an old saying ment to explain that things have gone haywire.
I am still looking for an iso file that will not take about 3 hours to down load, I am not on broad band, dial up is slow, can anyone help.
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November 9th, 2005, 06:37 AM
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I have at last loaded windows 98se, this means that the boot from the a: drive found my cdrom, now when I try to use the cdrom it says no cdrom connected to this computer I have a program vxd.fix that will replace any lost damaged files but I need the C; and cdrom to use it what can I do to get my cd working, thanks to all that helped in the past. jim | |
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