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Boot I/O
Name: sjtrip88 Date: January 26, 2004 at 14:04:34 Pacific OS: Windows 2000 Pro CPU/Ram: 200 MMX 32 MB
Comment:
Hi, I just bought this laptop off of EBAY, and I'm trying to get an operating system on it. When I put the windows 2000 CD in the drive, all it does is say "Invalid System Disk." When I tried putting the floppy disks in for win 2000, I get this message that says Boot I/O: error reading disk, or something to that effect. PLEASE HELP ME!!!
Name: wanderer Date: January 26, 2004 at 16:16:42 Pacific
Reply:
Sounds like you need to get into the bios and change the boot order. Invalid system disk is a message from trying to boot the hard drive not the cdrom.
Get into the bios and change the boot order.
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Response Number 2
Name: sjtrip88 Date: January 26, 2004 at 19:58:21 Pacific
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My boot order is already set to boot to the CD ROM drive first.
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Response Number 3
Name: sjtrip88 Date: January 27, 2004 at 13:17:19 Pacific
Reply:
I'm really confused about this whole thing... I was thinking maybe there's something off about the hard-drive?? Because when I boot up with the floppy disk drive in, it won't even boot to a:/ it just gives me the invalid system disk error.
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