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12.13.2007 at 12:33PM PST, ID: 23022093
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Replaced hard drive / CD drive is not working to restore from disks

Asked by bwbpro in PC Laptops, Hard Drives & Storage, Backup & Restore Software

Tags: drive, evo, restore, cd, hard

One of my employee's laptops crashed (Compaq Evo N1000v).  It is a pentium 4 and was running XP.  I purchased a new hard drive and installed it.  Unfortunately, when I try to restore from the restore disks, the CD drive does not work.  In the bios, it is set to boot first from the multi bay first.  I can hear the CD start to spin but then it slows down and it continues this pattern.  The laptop just comes up with a black screen saying non-system disk.  It appears to me I have a bad CD drive.  If that is the case, is there any other way for me to restore or re-image the harddrive.  I assume my 3.5 drive works but I can't imagine how may floppies I would need to copy the 3 restore cds onto them.  I guess that could be a fall back plan.  Who knows, maybe it's not the CD and I'm just a dope who's missing something.  Thanks in advance if any of you can help!!!  BrettStart Free Trial
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