Old laptop, new hard drive

Itronix

Itronix

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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.
 
I believe that falls under the category of "Pirated Software" and therefore we can't help you.
 
Why is it pirated? Who says the disk isn't genuine? I only said that I downloaded the boot disks. Is that considered "illegal"? I tried to get stuff from microsoft to help me with this thing a while ago, but they wouldn't, as this OS is "obsolete" and they can't do much. This computer won't run XP. (PII 300mhz).
 
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Well I was imagining that you downloaded the OS disk.

Try booting with a windows 98 floppy and make it able to boot from CD.

If that doesn't work, find a copy of windows 98.
 
voyagerfan99 said:
Well I was imagining that you downloaded the OS disk.

Try booting with a windows 98 floppy and make it able to boot from CD.

If that doesn't work, find a copy of windows 98.
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Its ok to use ANY windows disk that you find from ANY source so long as you use YOUR licensed number.Is that correct?

I would think Bill Gates does not give a crap about the disks themselves,,just the LIC number you enter into the computer.
 
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