Dsherm112

Mercury KOB740CFDMx

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I have the above system. My daughter took it to school and it crashed. I tried to repair XP and it didn't work. I reformatted and it wouldn't re-install XP. For some reason the CD Rom quit. I have tried the following:

2 different CD Drives,
3 different hard drives,
2 different CD Cables,
2 different operating systems.

I'm now focusing on trying to get W-98 installed. I reformatted and changed to Fat 32. I've tried 2 different W 98 Setup disks. I keep getting the CDR101: Not ready reading Drive E error.

My only idea is the mobo controller has failed. Is there anything else it could be. The system was new in 8/04

Thanks,

Sherm

Earl Phillips

You say you reformatted the PC. Does that mean you executed FORMAT C:? If so, then that requires a reload of the operating system. If you have an upgrade version of Windows XP, there must be a prior version of Windows already be present on the hard drive. Therefore, you may need to see if you can find any non-upgrade version of Windows prior to XP, load it and then immediately upgrade to XP.

dai

try putting the cd on the other eide connection
the only difference between an upgrade disk and a full version is the upgade will ask for your previous disk to verify you are entitled to the upgrade
for 98 use the command
format C:/ s