PC will not boot

[OLDBIKER]

I starting scrubbing the HD on a Presario 6000 and aborted. When I
booted of the CD again I got a C: data error. Now I can not boot off
the CD or floppy. I can not get to the BIOS with F10. If I hold down
F10 too soon there is a continuous beep and a key depressed error.
Otherwise all the shows on the monitor after the COMPAQ splash is
"MISSING OPERATING SYSTEM"

Help, where do I go from here?

 

[JAD]

I starting scrubbing the HD on a Presario 6000 and aborted. When I
booted of the CD again I got a C: data error.

thats because you 'scrubbed ' it....orhalfassedscrubbedit

Now I can not boot off

the CD or floppy.

one has little to do with the other

I can not get to the BIOS with F10.

you used F10 in the past and it worked and now not? I asked because ...and
they could have changed it....F2 was the key I always used on prescarios.



If I hold down

F10 too soon there is a continuous beep and a key depressed error.

yes because that is what you are causing..just a tap not hold down,,again I
believe its F2

Otherwise all the shows on the monitor after the COMPAQ splash is
"MISSING OPERATING SYSTEM"

You scrubbed bub...no OS, just a splattering of crap cause you didn't finish
it

Help, where do I go from here?

Use F2 if I'm wrong so be it....
once your in the bios, change the boot sequence to CD rom first
If you are using XP then follow instuctions, delete the partitions then let
XP format
something tells me your doomed...because the situation you caused by
'scrubbing' should have been obvious

 

[H. Seldon]

I starting scrubbing the HD on a Presario 6000 and aborted. When I
booted of the CD again I got a C: data error. Now I can not boot off
the CD or floppy. I can not get to the BIOS with F10. If I hold down
F10 too soon there is a continuous beep and a key depressed error.
Otherwise all the shows on the monitor after the COMPAQ splash is
"MISSING OPERATING SYSTEM"

Help, where do I go from here?

F2 should take you to BIOS not F10. Further, even if you do change the
boot sequence in BIOS and even if you do manage to install vanilla
Windows XP, you're gonna have one helluva time tracking down the
proprietry drivers for that piece of crap. I ran into trouble with one
and eventually used the box for a door-stop and threw the rest in the
garbage can.
I sure hope you were smart and cut backup CDs of the supplied OS. It'll
save a ton of misery. Good luck.

For crissake, never run a utility that says "scrub" unless you're
positive you can see it through to the end. Power outages alone have
ruined more machines while using such utilities.