i purchased a gateway select 400 from a garage sale.
i am trying to start over fresh with the system
restoration cd, but it just goes to black screen with
boot failure: reboot and select proper boot device or
insert the correct media?
Travis Swift - 07 Oct 2004 07:55 GMT
>-----Original Message-----
>i purchased a gateway select 400 from a garage sale.
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
>insert the correct media?
>.
Use working win98 pc, make start up disk. Insert in
gateway select 400 pc; fdisk hardrive, reformat harddrive,
reinstall windows.
Bert Kinney - 08 Oct 2004 22:06 GMT
Hi,
The first step would be to make sure the drive is recognized
in the BIOS. Enter the BIOS setup and see if it is there.

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You wrote
> i purchased a gateway select 400 from a garage sale.
> i am trying to start over fresh with the system
> restoration cd, but it just goes to black screen with
> boot failure: reboot and select proper boot device or
> insert the correct media?
C - 10 Oct 2004 22:16 GMT
Need a boot disk go to:
www.bootdisk.com
C
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^For more information.^
For information on installing W98, go to:
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or go to:
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^ Also tells you how to Formate/Reformate your Hard Drive
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Thankyou for reading this.
Have a good day.
C
>-----Original Message-----
>i purchased a gateway select 400 from a garage sale.
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
>insert the correct media?
>.