Hello people, i have registered on here in hope that somebody out there will be able to help.
Here is the story..
My old laptop (Packard Bell Easynote K series) used to run fine, am not sure why but the DVD drive packed up one day and i searched long and hard for drivers. After finding them i had no such luck and eventually gave up with it just using the laptop for internet use.
I had been thinking and thought maybe if I could re-install windows (XP) it might magically bring my laptop dvd drive back to life and clear some rubbish of in the process.
I cannot simply put the windows xp cd in and boot from that as the drive doesnt recognise any cd, tried format in dos and didnt work as volume was in use.
Fiddled about with it abit more and I have now go to the point where the only thing the laptop can do is enter the BIOS, it does not recognise the HD at all just keeps asking me to select a boot device...
Im not realy that fussed as I have a nice new laptop now but it might stop some arguments with the Mrs if I had the other one running aswell. lol.
Hopefully someone can help
PS.. Laptop does not have a floppy drive so forget that. Tried external HD aswell but cant boot from that.
Regards
Matt
Here is the story..
My old laptop (Packard Bell Easynote K series) used to run fine, am not sure why but the DVD drive packed up one day and i searched long and hard for drivers. After finding them i had no such luck and eventually gave up with it just using the laptop for internet use.
I had been thinking and thought maybe if I could re-install windows (XP) it might magically bring my laptop dvd drive back to life and clear some rubbish of in the process.
I cannot simply put the windows xp cd in and boot from that as the drive doesnt recognise any cd, tried format in dos and didnt work as volume was in use.
Fiddled about with it abit more and I have now go to the point where the only thing the laptop can do is enter the BIOS, it does not recognise the HD at all just keeps asking me to select a boot device...
Im not realy that fussed as I have a nice new laptop now but it might stop some arguments with the Mrs if I had the other one running aswell. lol.
Hopefully someone can help
PS.. Laptop does not have a floppy drive so forget that. Tried external HD aswell but cant boot from that.
Regards
Matt