Cacci_H
04-14-2002, 12:22 PM
I just did a fdisk and a reformat on my computer, this was after trying everything else to get my operating system up. I kept getting no windows on the computer. I have no restore disk. All was going good up to the installing windows. When I type setup, I get not ready reading drive abort, fail, or retry? yes theres a disk in there and its clean. It recognizes the cd and Ive copied the disks driver also to the configuration.
So what Im thinking is its a hardware problem, bad cd-rom. The cd-rom on the computer stopped working sometime during the reformatting.
So I took it out and replaced it with another one, not new but was good last I knew. Well I got the same message, not ready reading drive.... Same thing with yet another cd-rom. So Im wondering what else it can be, Hard to believe all the cd-roms are bad. I have a working one on my other computer, but its a little more difficult to take out so Id like to try other things first. thanks Iam using windows 98se, the computer is a hp pavilion 7030 and I used the windows 98 boot-up disk, the one on my computer.
So what Im thinking is its a hardware problem, bad cd-rom. The cd-rom on the computer stopped working sometime during the reformatting.
So I took it out and replaced it with another one, not new but was good last I knew. Well I got the same message, not ready reading drive.... Same thing with yet another cd-rom. So Im wondering what else it can be, Hard to believe all the cd-roms are bad. I have a working one on my other computer, but its a little more difficult to take out so Id like to try other things first. thanks Iam using windows 98se, the computer is a hp pavilion 7030 and I used the windows 98 boot-up disk, the one on my computer.