9:19 AM 8/7/2005-----sunday morn---10 am cst
my cpu is h.p. pavilion 6736-r purchased 1/1/01
667mgz celeron processor
upgrade to 256 sdram memory
floppy and cd-rom
windows o.s.---ME
due to problems with deleted .dll files i have been advised to reintall my O.S.
a friend has given me a M.E. installation cd.
i have went to freepctech.com and downloaded[on floppy]
a boot disk for M.E.
while trying to format the hard drive
i get *****NON-SYSTEM DISK OR DISK ERROR.
REPLACE AND PRESS ANY KEY WHEN READY.
i have took disk out and reinserted and pressed key------and once just pressed key without takeout.same
thing took place.
i have done this in NORMAL. THEN TRIED SAFE MODE.
MESSAGE KEEPS REPEATING WITH PRESS OF KEY.
can you help??
larry maddock [log in to unmask]
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