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operating system not found ... error in loading operating system ...so now what do i do?
a friend of mine just gave me a laptop they were going to toss out they handed me the laptop with two hard drives and said good luck. nice right.
they thought they had a hard drive issue so they went and bought a new one and that one does the same.
i put in one hard drive and and it goes to this screen
says operating system not found error loading operating system i tried to set bios back to default but i still get this so i tried the second hard drive given... same thing.
i have no clue what windows was in it. i am guessing its95 as the sticker on it says or 98
i do have a windows 98 update cd...i have a windows me cdrom i also have an xp cdrom... nothing works. i tried them all and it still ends up on the screen above.
i was informed on another forum that 95 would be my limit since the laptop is so old. which does not matter to me i need want it for wordpad and small tasks nothing major.
if it matters the laptop is a dell latitude LM
when i got in to the bios this is what i have.
on the boot sequence the only options are hard disk only and diskette first. which i have it set on on both with no luck. it says the diskette A
not installed... there is only a cd rom. is this just labeled as the diskette? the the cd does attempt to start up you can hear it.
i have tried hitting F8 to choose the path and that doesnt work either on all my other computers in the bios it gives me choices for cdrom and disk drive not the diskette.
is there a way i can get to a part of dos where i can type in commands? after the error loading operating system it just beeps at me if i try to type anything.
is there a way to test the harddrives on a desktop computer? to make sure that the new one hasnt been damaged due to laying around for a long time?
any help would be greatly appreciated because i am out of ideas! :) thank you in advance ~tristynn~
Message Edited by trixxie62 on 12-22-2007 02:33 PM
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Message Edited by C3PO5 on 12-22-2007 12:04 PM
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Message Edited by trixxie62 on 12-22-2007 03:27 PM
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Message Edited by trixxie62 on 12-22-2007 05:31 PM
Message Edited by trixxie62 on 12-22-2007 05:33 PM
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December 22nd, 2007 21:00
Examples, not necessarily recommendations:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Used-Dell-floppy-p-n-98311-for-LATITUDE-LM-LMP_W0QQitemZ140183663679QQihZ004QQcategoryZ42182QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem?_trksid=p1638.m118
http://cgi.ebay.com/Dell-Latitude-Inspiron-FDD-floppy-cable-45647-53975_W0QQitemZ180102255685QQihZ008QQcategoryZ42321QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem?_trksid=p1638.m118
The system should be able to run a controlled version of Windows 98 without too much problem, or several versions of Linux quite well.
GM
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