The intructions says to hold down the C key when starting your machintosh. When do I put in the cd and when do I hold down the C key and for how long do I hold it?
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After inserting the CD in the Mac, restart, holding down the C key.  You can release the C key when you hear a lot of activity coming from the CD drive, as that will indicate that the Mac is accessing the CD for the operating system, as opposed to starting from the hard drive.
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Yes, you should be able to use it.  If its down, what is happening when you try to use it?  That would help.  Is it not recognizing the disk, it could be a bad disk or trouble with the drivers,try adding more detail.
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You need to clarify your question, you aren't getting responses because it isn't clear what you are looking for. There is no such then as a disk drive "reset code". Are you looking for the Windows activation key?\nYou can either repost here or email me and I am sure I can help you.
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Click on the start tab. Click on run in the window that pops up type D:&#92; I am not sure that what you call you cd drive but in most that’s it. From your explanation it sounds like your auto run on the cd is not working. This should work.
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You have to set your computer to actually boot to the disc. It won't automatcially read the disc.\n\nTo do this, while your computer is booting up, it should show you what button to press to enter BIOS (the button is different depending on who made the computer). Press this, and navigate yourself to your boot order, and tell it to boot from the CD.\n\nSome computers (some Dells, for example), will have a "One-time boot" option, which is more effective, as you don't have to change boot orders again.\n\nThis should help you out.
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Depends if you're Mac or PC.  I have to remember 2 ways as I use Mac at work (Cmd-p) and PC at home (Ctrl-p).\n\nQuick keys can be a pain sometimes - lol
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Make sure you're tapping (not holding down on) the DEL key the ENTIRE time of startup - don't wait too late.  Also, try a wired PS/2 keyboard if yours is wireless or USB.  Take a look at the resource below.
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there could be somthing wrong with the opening mechanizim... there should be a hole located in the CD drive... place a pin in this and it should open!
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you tap the F8 key to get to the menu for last known good configuration.\nIf you need the cd, you can get it from compaq, if they are not availiable, there are a couple of third party online companies that sell them, or you could just install windows xp with someone else's cd and use your code on the case
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ok here is how...\nas soon as u start ur PC press DEL key to enter the CMOS,\nthen in the first option enter..\nthere u can see the time option n all sort..\ndont change ne settings as they all are very important,specially if u dont know what u r doin..\nthere u can see Drive A: which may be none in ur case....\nhighlight that with the direction key..\nthen click enter n select..floppy 1.44MB FDD\nonce done pressF10 or press Esc then select Save And Exit..\nthen Yes... this is the basic way....\nIf not u gotta hav some connector or faulty FDD...
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You didn't state straight out what type of drive you D: drive was, but you were nice enough to say it's FAT 32 which means it must be a hard drive.\n\n1. Power off computer, unplug everything from it. Open the side of the case. Hold on the the case while making sure that your IDE ribbon is connected to your hard drive. Make that the power is connected. Make sure that the jumpers are in the correct position. Your D: drive is most likely a slave. So make sure the jumper is in the slave position. You can find which is by lookin on the hard drive. Most hard drives show you which jumper is for which setting. If it is on slave try putting it on Cable Select (CS) Put everything back together, restart the computer. Check to see if it can r/w to the drive.\n\n2. Try putting the Hard drive on the other IDE controller with your CD drive and see if it is able to work there.\n\n3. Start computer in safe mode, can you r/w to the drive? If so it's related to start up items or your currect drivers. First try reinstalling drivers to see if that fixes it. If that doesn't try disabling your programs that run when the computer starts\n\n4. Check device manager (right click "my computer" left click properties, click on the device manager tab) Make sure that your driver is properly installed. ( you can do this visually. If there is a question mark or exclamation point or red X on your hard drive, reinstall the driver)\n\n5. Check to see if there are updated drivers for your IDE controller. You can find those on the internet.\n\n6. If that doesn't work try putting the hard drive in another computer to test if it works on that computer. If it works, then the problem is solely with your system. \n\n7. You can try to run sfc.exe. click start>run..> type command click ok. at the prompt type "sfc.exe /scannow" make sure to have the Windows 98 SE disk in the CD drive when you do this. This will make sure that your windows system files are in proper working order.\n\nRecommendations: Please consider upgrading your operating system. Windows 98 SE has so many holes in it. Plus it doesn't support NTFS and it's a 16 bit OS. Plus the OS is getting on 10 years old. (Unix/linux users don't care about how old it is, cuz it will always work) Windows OS's have a relatively short shelf life.
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Hit the shift key 5 times in a row and it should come up again so you can deactivate it all together.  If that doesn't work, then go to the control panels to the handicap accessibility and its in there
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I will tell you. When the machine restarts, it will ask you to "Press any key to run setup..." or something similar. Do not press anything at this moment. Then the setup will continue itself. If you press any key, then you will be looping the XP setup.
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One last try, start the system and keep pressing the key "F8" you will come to a screen where it will ask you how you want the system to start........choose the number which corresponds to "last known good configuration"....... if everything is good then you can have your system working....\n\nElse if you can get a help from your firend take his OS CD and reload your system, but you got to remember your systems original OS Key number.........
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ahmm.. you didn't read the instruction manual bcoz u still can't read!!!! ur six months old remember?.... u got the controls all wrong!!..lol!!!\n\nget a new one and get ready for the next CRASH!!! lol....
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make a start up disk bootdisk.com will help. restart type in format c then enter
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Are you just pulling it out or are you removing it properly? With those kind of devices usually you need to do something to tell the operating system you're about to remove the thing, if you don't do that, odd things can happen...\n\nAssuming you're using a recent version of windows, look in the little task bar in the bottom right corner by the clock. When the thumb drive is plugged in, you should see a little icon appear there (I think it's grey with a green arrow on). Double click on it and a little window should appear that gives you the option to Stop the device, if you do that before pulling the drive you shouldn't get any problems...