i have an old micron industries laptop that i wanted to give to my little brother. he's 8 and doesn't really care that it only has windows 95' on it. i was working with it one day and i shut it down to go do something when i came back i turned it on and instead of booting up it said "invalid system disk replace then press any key" i have tried to insert my windows xp operating system disk to try to load xp but it wont read it. i dont know what i did could somone tell me how to fix it?
2006-11-24 05:29:58 · 8 answers · asked by Eagle wing 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
you hard disk is gone
2006-11-24 05:58:42 · answer #1 · answered by GoLd E 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Remove the floppy disk or CD thats left in the computer. No xp is to much for the micron I had one and it was only 32 megs of RAM and 133 Mhz cpu.. So there is a reason the XP will not load into the computer ...
2006-11-24 15:18:11 · answer #2 · answered by Anointed71 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
even newer comps give this msg if you forget to take out your 3 1/2 floppy. you could always go to bios and boot from C: or what ever your local disk is or even Boot from disk to reinstall but to tell you what you did i would have to know what you were doing ? oooo and if you put XP on this lil laptop i don't think it would be to good of an idea i think it would just slow it down and not really do so well with this new of an OS but thats just my thought
2006-11-24 13:39:03 · answer #3 · answered by katfood781 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Mine did this when I took a disc out before the program was thru shutting down. Are you sure that you weren't installing something and took the disc out too soon! If yes, you have to put the correct one back in.
2006-11-24 13:33:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It seems that the OS has crashed. You will have to try and start the laptop so that it is booting from the CD drive and your windows installation will then start. You have to goto the BIOS/CMOS setup for that.
2006-11-24 13:35:21 · answer #5 · answered by Cerebraltissue 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If your computer is not working properly while you are working on it, it could be a problem with device drivers, hardware or software.
Detailed instructions at http://tinyurl.com/yk5zpr
2006-11-24 21:34:00 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sounds like the hard drive may be gone.
2006-11-24 13:32:43 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
did you charge it did you make sure you didn't have a rumble with the connector
2006-11-24 13:33:40 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋