RE: Fixing the Master Boot Record

1999-11-01 Thread Bryan K. Walton
I wanted to clarify regarding what I said below, > Thanks to everyone on this simple issue. Turned out to be two problems, > I didn't have a bootable floppy, and the IBM program needed to be > extracted (something that I never saw mentioned on their download page). I PERSONALLY missed the note a

Re: Fixing the Master Boot Record

1999-11-01 Thread John_J_Neff
Your problem sounds like the BIOS program. More than anything else. Try formatting a disk in a windows machine and making it bootable (format a: /s) then boot the laptop from it. If this works then download the BIOS update again and extract to the same disk. Also check to see if the extracted

Re: Fixing the Master Boot Record

1999-11-01 Thread Ernest Johanson
On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Bryan K. Walton wrote: > perform the upgrade, I need to boot up the computer with this diskette in > the floppy drive. When I do that however, the computer gives me an error > message saying that there is an invalid system disk in the floppy drive.

Re: Fixing the Master Boot Record

1999-11-01 Thread Bryan K. Walton
Thanks to everyone on this simple issue. Turned out to be two problems, I didn't have a bootable floppy, and the IBM program needed to be extracted (something that I never saw mentioned on their download page). Thanks, Bryan ***