A little help...

[BobotheHobo]

I just recieved a computer someone wants me to fix, and I cant figure out whats wrong with the thing.

I selected for it to boot from "CDROM,A,C" in BIOS, but when it trys booting from windows cd, it says theres "No Bootable Media" I cant boot into windows in safe mode or regular. In safemode explorer.exe has an illegal operation. In regular i get a couple blue screen errors and nothing happens.

 

[mgoldb2]

I selected for it to boot from "CDROM,A,C" in BIOS, but when it trys booting from windows cd, it says theres "No Bootable Media"

Are you sure the windows cd you booting from FULL not Upgrade. You can not boot from a upgrade version of windows. If it is full and it still wont boot from cd drive then try making A:/ boot disks for it and boot it from the A:\ drive.

 

[BobotheHobo]

I have no A bootup discs, and its the windows 2000 professional im putting in. Trying to reformat his windows 98. Just for kicks, i tried 98 also and it didnt work.

 

[mgoldb2]

I have no A bootup discs, and its the windows 2000 professional im putting in. Trying to reformat his windows 98. Just for kicks, i tried 98 also and it didnt work.

If you have anouther computer. There should be a folder in the windows 2000 disk called bootdisk. in that folder there will be a file that allows you to make A:\ boot disk for it. do that then boot from the A:\ disk. You will need like 6 blank A:\ disks in order to do this.