Hi Deb -
It depends on what she uses the laptop for. I upgraded my original laptop
from an 80GB to a 100GB. Now I would love to have something closer to 160GB
to 200GB. My point is that I think 30GB doesn't seem like very much.
Although if it's Windows 98, and she doesn't do much, then it's
At 09:57 AM 1/4/2008, you wrote:
It depends on what she uses the laptop for. I upgraded my original laptop
from an 80GB to a 100GB. Now I would love to have something closer to 160GB
to 200GB. My point is that I think 30GB doesn't seem like very much.
Although if it's Windows 98, and she
PBC Web Design wrote:
They don't do much on it. Some internet and word
processing. Can I get a bigger hard drive than
what's in it?
Yes.
Wouldn't a larger
hard drive be bigger in physical size? There is
absolutely no more room in there for anything
bigger than what's in it now as
At 10:40 AM 1/4/2008, you wrote:
Are you sure that the drive in the old machine is dead, though? The
Missing Operating System error doesn't necessarily mean that the hard
drive is dead, it could just be that the bootloader has been wiped (by a
virus, for example).
When you tried booting from the
PBC Web Design wrote:
At 10:40 AM 1/4/2008, you wrote:
Are you sure that the drive in the old machine is dead, though? The
Missing Operating System error doesn't necessarily mean that the hard
drive is dead, it could just be that the bootloader has been wiped (by a
virus, for example).
Usually hitting F12 during startup will allow you to boot from CD (or on
some systems choose what you want to boot from). I usually start tapping it
right when it finishes the memory test and is detecting the hard drives.
Hit it once or twice or three times - not a big deal.
I agree with David
At 11:36 AM 1/4/2008, you wrote:
Once you've selected the CD-ROM drive as a boot device (with a higher
priority than the hard drive) reboot with the recovery CD or a Windows
CD in the drive and see what happens (or, if you see an option for a
one-time boot menu when the machine is first starting,
At 12:35 PM 1/4/2008, you wrote:
Usually hitting F12 during startup will allow you to boot from CD (or on
some systems choose what you want to boot from). I usually start tapping it
right when it finishes the memory test and is detecting the hard drives.
Hit it once or twice or three times - not
On 2008/01/04 12:41 (GMT-0200) PBC Web Design apparently typed:
If I can get it booted up, then I'm going to
probably just reformat using the cd's that came
w/the system. I don't think there's anything
important on it but I'll ask her
first. Reformatting should rid the system of any
On 2008/01/04 1:01 (GMT-0200) Felix Miata wrote:
No! Formatting is something you do to a partition, not to the physical
device. With W98 there's big likelihood that the problem is a boot sector
virus or a BIOS virus, neither of which standard formatting would affect.
Reinstalling might kill a
Deb:
Is the laptop set up to boot from the CD because regardless of what's
happened to the hard drive you shouldn't get this message if you're
successfully booting from the CD.
You'll need to get into the laptop's BIOS and change the boot settings
(or boot priority) to fire off the CD-ROM first.
If there is critical data I'd simply reinstall Windows so that the disk
could be accessed and make a complete back-up or boot from a Linux distro CD
that can read whatever format the disk is in and make a back-up from there
whichever is easier for you.
Cheryl D Wise
MS MVP Expression - Author:
At 01:30 PM 1/4/2008, you wrote:
In this case, I would format the drive, try to reload Windows on the same
drive. If it loads - great. If it doesn't, then I would get a new hard
drive. Once you get it reloaded, protect yourself with some software in the
event it was a virus that did this.
I've
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