Corrupted File Makes Computer Not Start!

If you can't boot from cd. Buy a used floppy drive and hook it up. Your compaq probably came with floppy recovery disk , because it has a hidden recovery partition on the hard drive. Or use a win 98 boot disk to fdisk then format and reinstall. I say this because your floppy is hooped? A used one is about $ 10.00 canadian. Then change to boot from cdrom. But try Delphin's suggestion first you should be able to change boot order from bios . Enter bios? http://www.burningvoid.com/iaq/compaq-bios.html



Edit: Compaq 's are funny some are press f10 , f11 or ?

i've been getting into the bios. it's f10 and it was already making the cd-rom boot first by default. i've tried switching to hard drive and then back to cd-rom, but it still doesn't boot.

If you can't boot to your Cd disc go here and make another disc which will be bootable.

http://www.betaplace.co.uk/bootcd.asp

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Originally posted by dmorgan89@15 April 2004 - 11:55
i've been getting into the bios. it's f10 and it was already making the cd-rom boot first by default. i've tried switching to hard drive and then back to cd-rom, but it still doesn't boot.

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Have you tryed clearing the cmos?