bullines..... i need help!!!

[biss03]

i tried reinstalling windows ME on that laptop we talked about. first, the floppy you had me make gives a non-system disk error when i put it in. so i tried to reinstall ME anyways. everything was going great until it went to reboot after the install. it says that setup is updating config files, but then i get a message saying :

 

windows could not upgrade the file %1 from %2

%1:%2

 

it repeated tries to do the update and fills the screen with these errors.

 

what can i do. it never actually boots up ME.

[Teh Bear without Brains kinda idiot]

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non-system disk error when i put it in

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That was actually the hard drive giving you this message ,JMHO .

to boot from floppy you need to enable boot from floppy ,disable boot from hard drive and set boot sequence Floppy first in Bios Settings

 

HTH

WTHH

[mayday]

biss, where you able to format the drive first or are you just trying to reinstall windoz from the cd?. will the pc boot from the cd only?

[Brent Wilkerson]

If you are going to reinstall....I wouldn't use ME....icky! Can you find / have a copy of 98? I'd run 98 before ME if you can run 2K or XP IMHO. ME is so buggy. Trying going to http://www.bootdisk.com and all the boot discs you'd even need are there...including ME boot disk. There also are many FAQs links there too.

HTH alittle....

[Bullines]

What's the make and model of the notebook?

[biss03]

bullines... Its a Dell Inspiron I2500 model no. pp02L.

 

brent... this was already discussed in great detail in a previous post so i'll give you the summary. basically it's my cousins Laptop and she is a college student with no money. so even the $100 to get the upgrade to XP is a lot.

 

Mayday... i wasn't able to format the drive because i couldn't get the boot floppy to work.

[Teh Bear without Brains kinda idiot]

Enable the boot from floppy as I described before !

This is a BIOs setting

[biss03]

how do i accomplish this winnie?

[mayday]

does it attempt to boot at all? if so watch the screen during boot. you may see, hit F1 for setup or hit Delete for setup. if you get in there look for boot seqwence and set it to A: then C: then it should try and boot from floppy

[biss03]

yes i can get into setup hitting F2. when i get to the boot page, its shows (in this order):

removeable devices

legacy floppy drives

hard drive

IBM-DJSA-210-(PM)

Bootable Add-in cards

cd-rom drive

intel boot agent version 3.0.03

 

i tried rearranging them but to no avail.

[Teh Bear without Brains kinda idiot]

+1000 to Mayday !

[Teh Bear without Brains kinda idiot]

point on floppy device and press + sign to put it on the first place.

after changing save your Bios settings

HTH

[biss03]

I tried moving the removeable devices (which includes the floppy drive) to the top of the list and it still gives me the non-system disk error.

[Bullines]

Is the notebook's floppy drive an internal one or external (connected via USB or something else)?

[biss03]

i've disabled all the other devices so only the removeable is active and still get the invalid system disk error.

[biss03]

the floppy is internal

[Bullines]

Does the floppy disk ever get accessed before you get the non system disk error (makes noise, access light is on, etc)?

[Teh Bear without Brains kinda idiot]

On start up while you getting this error make sure that it `s actually floppy works :

see the led lamp Must be lighted and specific sound of the f;oppy reading .

If that not happs, it means it is not floppy booting ,but something else like cd or hard drive .(you can see and hear which one of them )

I say you must select legacy floppy drive ,not removable device ,which are many others .

If the boot happens on floppy and you sure or

bad floppy or floppy drive or both

HTH

WTHH

 

PS Too pity I am on the other part of the globe ,I love this kind of things !

[biss03]

yes. it tries to read from the floppy.

[Teh Bear without Brains kinda idiot]

Floppy disks are not safe from damages and faults

Change your disk to some other good new one ,make brand new boot disk and test it on some other PC ,no matter what system it has (remember to set Bios settings )

If it will successfully boot and your laptop would not it means ->bad floppy drive .

HTH

WTHH

[Bullines]

Sounds like either the diskette or the download file went bad. You can try two other sources in addition to the one I gave you last week here or here. Actually, even a Windows 98 bootdisk would work. Also, try using another diskette; one that you are sure is free of errors.

[Teh Bear without Brains kinda idiot]

Kinda O/T

Anyone wants Linux repair disket ?

Grat tool for PC repairs !

I can put image on FTP

[biss03]

amazing...talk to you guys long enough and some of your genious rubs off on me. while waiting for your reply, i downloaded the original again on a newly formatted floppy and now i get a different error: NTLDR is missing, press any key to restart. pressing any key just brings this up again. i will also try getting the boot from the other links as well.

[Teh Bear without Brains kinda idiot]

This is a boot disk for NT family ,(NT ,2000,Xp )

Get for win 98

But the boot now is OK !

That means your floppy is OK !

 

HTH

WTHH

[mayday]

may want to try setting boot from cd then try and acsess the floppy if you get a cd boot