I cannot get the Gateway 7422 Laptop to boot from the cd. I have changed the settings in the bios for boot sequence and even confirmed in the “secondary master” that it is recognized by the bios.
Is there way to confirm that the cd/dvd unit is bad?
Another issue with this machine is that I am trying to replace the hhd. I have initialized the drive through my xp workstation – computer management – disk management. I added a partition. I installed the hhd in another computer started the “Ping-PartImage” (a unix software able to start partition drives)and could not write a new partition or see the partition that I created to the hhd, “access denied.” What is the best way to format the hhd to
Is is just coincindental that both the hhd and the cd/dvd happened to go out about the same time?
Help please.
Laura
