I have a laptop Dell L400 and the old drive died. I also had a bad
partition sector. I just bought a 60 GB HD (Seagate) and put it into
my laptop along with the Windows XP (full version). I configured the
BIOS so it boots from the CD drive. I can hear it spinning my external
CD-ROM drive, but my screen just shows a blinking cursor.
When I boot from the HD it predictably says no operating system.
What should I do ?
2006-12-27 06:29:52 · 3 answers · asked by IlliniGeek 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
I just checked the CD on another PC and its fine. When I ran a HD wiper (on my old HD) earlier on my laptop using the external CD-Rom, it read the CD fine.
2006-12-27 06:38:06 · update #1
ok, i tried the floppy and I get to disc 6 and then I am asked if i want to install xp. I hit enter and it tells me it can not find the cd-rom drive. please note i am using the same cable for the external floppy drive aND CD-ROM DRIVE. Do I need to unplug the floppy drive and plug in the cd-rom drive before clicking on to install windows xp ?
2006-12-27 08:35:50 · update #2
I've had problems booting/installing from external CDRom drives before. Try using the bootable floppies if you have a floppy drive to initiate the CDRom installation. You can get them from microsoft here.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310994
2006-12-27 06:34:41 · answer #1 · answered by matkay521225 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You've either got a duff install CD or there's something wrong with the CD-Rom drive.
2006-12-27 14:31:53 · answer #2 · answered by Bostonian In MO 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
reset the cmos or take out or unplug any hardware you don,t need to start
2006-12-27 14:34:14 · answer #3 · answered by zippo091 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋