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Laptop from Hell
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Posted by: McCrae
Greetings from South Dakota!
Here is the problem......I recently reformatted my hard drive in order to install Win98 O.S.
After choosing to boot with cd support I received an error message ( cd101 failure to read )
I have tried everything I can think of. Compaq support team has reccomended I download several different things ( none of which has corrected the problem )
I did run the diagnostic program directly from A: drive and it told me that I had a different error ( 6605-06 )
drive not reading, timing out.
I am very confused at this point. I can hear the cd drive running, but no access. I am at wits end. I have reformatted, repartitioned so much that I don't know whether or not to wind my butt or scratch my watch!
For what it's worth here are my specs:
Armada SB 5200DM
Intel Pentium w/MMX ( A dinosaur I know )
I just want my out of date, antiquated laptop back ( you know how it is to lose a friend  )
I have attached a screen capture ( not the best copy ) but it may help
Posted by: bLaCkOuT
I know very little about laptops, but in PC terms you might try to ensure that the IDE cables are in tact at both ends (If thats even possible on a laptop).
Have you tried reloading the drivers?
I couldn't find anything on that error code.
All out laptops are Dells so when one of em goes wrong, we just tell em to send out the tech. He literally pulls the thing almost totally apart to fix almost any problem. We're on a first name basis him and I
Sorry I can't help ya out more 
Posted by: Tecil
Laptops have ribbon cables instead of IDE cables. Same kind of concept though.
Sounds more like the CD drive may be defective. Like it's detecting it, but there is something actually wrong with the drive and reading discs.
Posted by: AtariFX
is your disc scratched?
Posted by: tawvb
On another forum I came across a similar problem, with what appears like a good fix. It might help as the second error code was the similar (error # 6605-03) failure to read error and it is a compaq with a scisi CD-Rom. I have a very old laptop which I am emotionally attached to too and I can never get an OS CD-Disk to boot from a CD-Rom. But I have a disk with a DOS CD-rom driver which works every time.
here is the url:
http://www.computing.net/windows31/...forum/9133.html
Posted by: crazyhors001
my armada 4100 laptop uses a specific boot disk to boot to a dos prompt. i was cable to download the prog from compaq. (btw the 4100's use an expansion base for the cd) you could try an external parrelell drive (like a zip or cd-rw) if you can get your hands on one. the compaq specific disc is unreliable so i load windows from zip disk
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