If you don't have cd-rom drive or floppy drive on laptop and the hard drive is not booting up what do you do?

Some Systems won't boot because the BiOS has been crashed or altered in some way? Try getting into the BiOS setup page by holding the escape key while booting. If you get the onscreen prompts follow them in. Check to see if the Hard drive is recognized by the BiOS, you should see a description of your Hard drive somewhere within the settings. Most BiOS have an AUTO detect function some where make sure it does. If that is all good, then you may want to have your Lap-Top boot from a Network device. Find a PC or other LT with IR (infrared connection capabilities) because your Lap-Top does (almost all do) set the good PC to share files and folders and alow access to the system files. Hopefully your LT will detect the IR port on the good PC and draw the boot info from it. You must be using the same OS on both PC's though. I have a sneaking suspicion you are using Windows 98 on a PC running 300-500 MHZ with 64-128M RAM? Windows 98 is notorious for crashing if you mess with files using software like Registry Mechanic or others.Otherwise invest in CD for your lap top and I find it hard to believe it never came with a CD or Floppy!

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