no operating system found

tried to do a factory restore on my laptop and ended up
getting a message that said error #29 . then i couldn't
do anything, i had to manually shut the computer down.
when i turned it back on the disk drive popped open .i
was told to remove the disk and press enter to reboot and
when i did i got " no operating system found ". i'm
lost.i can't do anything with the computer. windows Me
was preinstalled on my computer....any help would be
appreciated, thanks

Telling us the manufacturer would be a good start!!

--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x)

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm
http://tinyurl.com/6oztj

Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's

" wrote in
message ...
tried to do a factory restore on my laptop and ended up
getting a message that said error #29 . then i couldn't
do anything, i had to manually shut the computer down.
when i turned it back on the disk drive popped open .i
was told to remove the disk and press enter to reboot and
when i did i got " no operating system found ". i'm
lost.i can't do anything with the computer. windows Me
was preinstalled on my computer....any help would be
appreciated, thanks

it's a compaq 1700 laptop.....
-----Original Message-----
Telling us the manufacturer would be a good start!!

--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x)

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm
http://tinyurl.com/6oztj

Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post
messages to NG's

"
wrote in
message ...
tried to do a factory restore on my laptop and ended up
getting a message that said error #29 . then i couldn't
do anything, i had to manually shut the computer down.
when i turned it back on the disk drive popped open .i
was told to remove the disk and press enter to reboot
and
when i did i got " no operating system found ". i'm
lost.i can't do anything with the computer. windows Me
was preinstalled on my computer....any help would be
appreciated, thanks



.

From what little I can find this seems as if it may be related to using the
restore facility while running an AV (either a software AV, like Norton, or
the BIOS AV) -
"ERROR #29 CANNOT LOCK A LOCKED DRIVE"

You need to repeat the factory restore, starting with a floppy boot - unless
the restore disk is bootable??

Try contacting either Compaq direct, or looking in their support site (now
part of HP's support) -
http://h20180.www2.hp.com/apps/Looku...=11&submit.y=4


--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x)

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm
http://tinyurl.com/6oztj

Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's

" wrote in
message ...
it's a compaq 1700 laptop.....
-----Original Message-----
Telling us the manufacturer would be a good start!!

--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x)

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm
http://tinyurl.com/6oztj

Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post
messages to NG's

"
wrote in
message ...
tried to do a factory restore on my laptop and ended up
getting a message that said error #29 . then i couldn't
do anything, i had to manually shut the computer down.
when i turned it back on the disk drive popped open .i
was told to remove the disk and press enter to reboot
and
when i did i got " no operating system found ". i'm
lost.i can't do anything with the computer. windows Me
was preinstalled on my computer....any help would be
appreciated, thanks



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