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Media error
A friend reported that her son's HD had broken. It would only boot up
to a floppy. I booted up to a floppy and got the message "media error". I put in a new HD and got the same message. However, there was a Tiny restore CD so I booted up to that and it installed win98 and everything seems OK. What does the error message imply? Colin |
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"Colin Bearfield" skrev i melding ... A friend reported that her son's HD had broken. It would only boot up to a floppy. I booted up to a floppy and got the message "media error". I put in a new HD and got the same message. However, there was a Tiny restore CD so I booted up to that and it installed win98 and everything seems OK. What does the error message imply? Sounds like one of those machines that has it's bios on the HD instead of a physical chip on the motherboard. Is it a compaq? Colin |
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On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 22:19:52 +0200, "Geir Klemetsen"
wrote: "Colin Bearfield" skrev i melding .. . A friend reported that her son's HD had broken. It would only boot up to a floppy. I booted up to a floppy and got the message "media error". I put in a new HD and got the same message. However, there was a Tiny restore CD so I booted up to that and it installed win98 and everything seems OK. What does the error message imply? Sounds like one of those machines that has it's bios on the HD instead of a physical chip on the motherboard. Is it a compaq? Colin That could be true. It's a Tiny and they cut every corner imaginable. The O/S was on a restore CD it could have transferred the bios from the CD to the HD. It seems OK now.The mobo was a cut down custom thing. Before the restore CD got to work I found it impossible to interrupt the BIOS on boot up. I haven't tried it since. Thanks Colin |
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