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03-13-2008, 04:18 AM
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Old laptop, new hard drive
Hello. I have a Compaq Armada 1700 that ended up with a bad hard drive. I put a new one in, but I can't access the bios to tell it to boot from the CD rom or floppy. I have a Windows 2000 disk (full OS). I made four boot disks from, I think,freebootdisk.com, but it won't read those either. The drives will run, but the computer just says non-system disk please insert system disk, or something close to that.
I read that the bios might have its own partition on the drive on these old Compaqs, but this is a new drive, so........? Any ideas? I know that this is an old laptop, and I do have a new one, but this repair has only really dinged me $15, so why not? It's got quite the audio! Thanks.
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