I have a very old laptop that has a cd drive & floppy drive but is failing to boot up. It ran on windows 98 but now says insert system when it trys to load. we've tried the hard drive in another laptop and it windows has gone but you can still boot up of a cd with that computer. when I try booting off of a cd on the laptop it wont do anything just says insert system disk and press any key. It will though boot up on a floppy disk and my question is: is there any way to get the laptop to boot off a cd by using a floppy disk. or is there any or is there any way of getting the laptop to boot up off a cd without a floppy disk.
I haven't explaned it v.well...sorry
2006-12-31 22:43:38 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
Yes you need nero (and the bootable floopy) when you make a cd in nero you are given the option to make it bootable - select this and browse to the floppy
2006-12-31 22:49:08 · answer #1 · answered by cool_clearwater 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
check your laptops BIOS settings.. see if you can select the CD as a bootable device.. sometimes its the boot sequence. however not all BIOS's allow this technique
failing that you will need to get a floppy dosk with the operating system AND a CD driver. I forget the details... soem of the geek sites should be abel to help
you need an formatted floppy with the operating system on. Find soemone with windows 98. at the dos prompt its soemthing like format a:/s
you can do the same thing in the format opion
copy mscdex (I think) onto the flopy. you will need to load the cd driver... forget how to do it off hand. but look for soemthign on the web with mscdex & CD and see what happens.
however if its tht old it may be the time to pension off the laptop and got with soemthing newer
2006-12-31 23:06:58 · answer #2 · answered by Mark J 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds as though you need the CD drivers, that we used to install before the CD could be used? ask someone to down load onto a floppy for you and install, this may assist.
God luck
Paul H
2006-12-31 22:50:30 · answer #3 · answered by PAUL H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you are booting, you may see a prompt like: Press F1 to go to Setup. Or Press Delete or F10. Each manufacturer is different. Press whatever button it says. In there, you should be able to navigate to a screen that lets you change the boot order. Set the first device to CDROM and save. Reboot and see if that works.
2006-12-31 22:49:40 · answer #4 · answered by Kokopelli 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋