- Apr 17, 2001
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I have an old HP Pavillion 8250, the first cd drive died and replaced it , the 2nd one
lasted a couple years then died. The computers been sitting for a year waiting
for me to fix. I bought a new cd drive. The trouble is I cannot get windows (98) to
recognize it. I tried all jumper settings. I tried manually , it still doesnt recognize it,
but asks if you have disk, but I cant put in disc as it is the only cd drive. There is a floppy
drive also on this computer.
Any suggestions appreciated. I really just wanted to start over and reformat hard drive but the recovery is a disk. Is there anyway to do it with a floppy???
ps it is getting power.
lasted a couple years then died. The computers been sitting for a year waiting
for me to fix. I bought a new cd drive. The trouble is I cannot get windows (98) to
recognize it. I tried all jumper settings. I tried manually , it still doesnt recognize it,
but asks if you have disk, but I cant put in disc as it is the only cd drive. There is a floppy
drive also on this computer.
Any suggestions appreciated. I really just wanted to start over and reformat hard drive but the recovery is a disk. Is there anyway to do it with a floppy???
ps it is getting power.