Hi,
i hope you can help me, I'm in a real fix. I need to put a new hard drive into a compaq 5280 laptop. I put in the HD and the laptop registers it's size and that it's there. I have a windows98 program on cd. I have made a startup disk for win98 on floppy. The laptop will not boot to a cd, it gives an error message: disk i/o error (laptop has swappable cd & floppy.
I put in the startup floppy and get to the point where I fdisk the hard drive and format it(it says I have 1 partition, if that's ok), then I can't do anything because I can't run the CD. I don't have OEM drivers for the laptop but I do have a restore CD that came with it, if I can just get the laptop to read it. I've checked HP support and they don't have much to help. i've checked every user manual and they don't help either.
please help.
Jim
i hope you can help me, I'm in a real fix. I need to put a new hard drive into a compaq 5280 laptop. I put in the HD and the laptop registers it's size and that it's there. I have a windows98 program on cd. I have made a startup disk for win98 on floppy. The laptop will not boot to a cd, it gives an error message: disk i/o error (laptop has swappable cd & floppy.
I put in the startup floppy and get to the point where I fdisk the hard drive and format it(it says I have 1 partition, if that's ok), then I can't do anything because I can't run the CD. I don't have OEM drivers for the laptop but I do have a restore CD that came with it, if I can just get the laptop to read it. I've checked HP support and they don't have much to help. i've checked every user manual and they don't help either.
please help.
Jim