[I know the category I selected is different - it showed me only individual categories, rather than overlapping categories.]
Hi.
I have a Fujitsu laptop whose hard drive, using Windose 8, unfortunately, has decided to stop working properly. It just stopped randomly months ago, and I went through all of the available options that it gives me to no avail. The false "fix" (automatic repair) that it also alleges is false. NOTHING worked.
Fed up, I decided to forget it and format the HDD so I could install a copy of Windose XP on it, so I can play games. Regardless of what I do in the BIOS/UEFI settings, it will NOT boot from, and worse than that it will not SEE, the boot disc for me to install the operating system. Whether I have the HD in or not, the laptop refuses to acknowledge the bootable XP disc - saying, "Warning Bootable Device Not Found". That's a lie because it's there in front of its "eyes" directly. I use the presented Boot Menu, and also press Tab to swap to the BIOS, but it still refuses to acknowledge it - it says, "Warning Boot Failure", but it decides to do a Micro$oft and not tell me anything remotely-related to anything which could help.
Once, after the "automatic repair" I chose to use a CD/DVD to fix it, and the error message shown to me was "System doesn't have any CD/DVD boot option. Please select other boot option in Boot Manager menu", yet in the Boot menu, the first option is CD/DVD HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GUBON; clicking Tab to swap to the BIOS InsydeH2O Setup Utility, and going right to System, Drive Configurations, I can see:
Drive0: [WDC WD5000LPVX-16V0TT3 - 500 GB] (when the HDD is in, of course)
[Enabled]
Drive1: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GUBON
[Enabled]
I didn't know it was a ED drive when I bought it...
Then going right to Boot, I select CD/DVD Drive: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GUBON, which is also 1st in the boot priority order, and STILL nothing.
Once, I managed to boot to windose 8 and save some files, but then it decided to stop working again, and all it does since is the fake "automatic repair", "collecting information", which reboots the machine immediately, or go to the various presented option, such as command prompt; reboot into windose 8; use a USB/CD/DVD; etc.
I have a "specially-designed CD lens cleaner" which "removes dust, dirt, and oil" from the CD lens - it can still work on DVDs; it's an old CD.
I have been able to boot from OSs on USB stick on this laptop, but I want a permanent OS on the hard drive. It can't be the hard drive entirely; as I said, the laptop's BIOS told me it doesn't have a CD/DVD boot option, yet as I said above it does - I can see it and select it, but it ignores it and the bootable discs.
I have several copies of Windose XP boot discs, and none of them work ON THIS MACHINE - but I know they do work because I have used them many times before. I can also boot from them to install the OS on another computer.
I don't care about windose 8, so could someone help me force this piece of wonderful crap to see and boot from the Windose XP boot disc so I can play games on it?
If need be, I'll download and install something to a USB stick, because as I said I can boot from USB sticks on it.
Thanks.
Hi.
I have a Fujitsu laptop whose hard drive, using Windose 8, unfortunately, has decided to stop working properly. It just stopped randomly months ago, and I went through all of the available options that it gives me to no avail. The false "fix" (automatic repair) that it also alleges is false. NOTHING worked.
Fed up, I decided to forget it and format the HDD so I could install a copy of Windose XP on it, so I can play games. Regardless of what I do in the BIOS/UEFI settings, it will NOT boot from, and worse than that it will not SEE, the boot disc for me to install the operating system. Whether I have the HD in or not, the laptop refuses to acknowledge the bootable XP disc - saying, "Warning Bootable Device Not Found". That's a lie because it's there in front of its "eyes" directly. I use the presented Boot Menu, and also press Tab to swap to the BIOS, but it still refuses to acknowledge it - it says, "Warning Boot Failure", but it decides to do a Micro$oft and not tell me anything remotely-related to anything which could help.
Once, after the "automatic repair" I chose to use a CD/DVD to fix it, and the error message shown to me was "System doesn't have any CD/DVD boot option. Please select other boot option in Boot Manager menu", yet in the Boot menu, the first option is CD/DVD HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GUBON; clicking Tab to swap to the BIOS InsydeH2O Setup Utility, and going right to System, Drive Configurations, I can see:
Drive0: [WDC WD5000LPVX-16V0TT3 - 500 GB] (when the HDD is in, of course)
[Enabled]
Drive1: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GUBON
[Enabled]
I didn't know it was a ED drive when I bought it...
Then going right to Boot, I select CD/DVD Drive: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GUBON, which is also 1st in the boot priority order, and STILL nothing.
Once, I managed to boot to windose 8 and save some files, but then it decided to stop working again, and all it does since is the fake "automatic repair", "collecting information", which reboots the machine immediately, or go to the various presented option, such as command prompt; reboot into windose 8; use a USB/CD/DVD; etc.
I have a "specially-designed CD lens cleaner" which "removes dust, dirt, and oil" from the CD lens - it can still work on DVDs; it's an old CD.
I have been able to boot from OSs on USB stick on this laptop, but I want a permanent OS on the hard drive. It can't be the hard drive entirely; as I said, the laptop's BIOS told me it doesn't have a CD/DVD boot option, yet as I said above it does - I can see it and select it, but it ignores it and the bootable discs.
I have several copies of Windose XP boot discs, and none of them work ON THIS MACHINE - but I know they do work because I have used them many times before. I can also boot from them to install the OS on another computer.
I don't care about windose 8, so could someone help me force this piece of wonderful crap to see and boot from the Windose XP boot disc so I can play games on it?
If need be, I'll download and install something to a USB stick, because as I said I can boot from USB sticks on it.
Thanks.
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