WIPRO LAPTOP MEMORY ERROR I have a wipro laptop that was inflacted by viruses.so i need to format it,and to reformat it i need to boot from cd. But when i try to open BIOS it need password that i am forget.At that time i want to clear ROM-CMOS battery for 20 sec. but yet it never work.Now every time when i boot my machine it booted and after booting it show bluebackground error massege and reboot.It never read from CD/DVD & harddisk.If i remove hard disk it show operating system not found.Please give me a proper solution for it.I need a best solution for it. Thankyou. Priyanka from siliguri.

It sounds like a boot sector virus, hardware issue or registry issue. When reformatting make sure you delete existing partitions and create a new one. Also if your trying to downgrade microsoft windows doesn't allow it. You will have to use gparted live cd and completely format the drive then try reformatting. for more info contact me at [email protected]

Install the XP discs and restart the machine. It should boot from the discs. Then follow the onscreen instructions. You will want to reformat your main drive. (C:)

That sounds like you have a very nasty virus that has infected the memory.
Switch off, unplug and remove the battery.
Using just the AC adapter, place your OS disk in the drive and as the laptop gets to the BIOS option, press F2 or whichever F button lets you in to set your master boot device as DVD/CD Rom.
close the laptop down and remove the AC Adapter.
Plug the AC Adapter back in and boot the laptop, that should get you into the CD ROM disk for formatting and replacing your system. I hope you remember to download all of the required drivers.
Hope this help.

Hello, you relly need to reformat it you can use an os installer suach as linux or windows using a usb flash drive, but you have to transfer the installer cd to the usb drive by using the wintoflash application. Once you've done that now you can reformat and install os in your notebook using your usb flash drive.

Haven't used win98 for a while so bear with me and this uses DOS COMMANDS too.
If useing restore cd/floppy you have to use a utility from compaq that creates two partitions on hard-drive.
They may have a restore floppy if you need it too.
One for "recovery files" and one for "OS Boot"
AHH, the memories, I still have my 95/98/ME Laptops up and running for older stuff. HP n CQ too.
Restore CD should do it all though.
If no restore CD - have Win98 CD?
if Harddrive partitioned and formated - Just do 1
1. boot from Win98 CD.
Partition n Format
2. Choose boot to DOS (puts u in virtual drive A)
AT PROMPT
3. Type drive letter of CD ( C: D: or E: )
4. Type CD Win98
5. Type Fdisk ( to partion drive)
reboot n do 1 + 2
6. Type format C: ( I do this to ckeck drive for errors)
OR
JUST Boot from CD and follow install instructions.
1 to 6 for if you have problem with Win98 CD setting up Harddrive.

take caution the SATA HD is Not reconized by Operation system as Installing Booting seq. Need to Change the Bios Setting from HD S*** to IDE. is needed in some computers, and try again

its bugged or so ...ir its missing files that were deleted by the anti-virus...
so ...format and reinstall ....be sure that ya format at least the C partition ....cause if ya have a recovery cd ..it will go under the last installation and the problem will reappear

you cannot format windows partition from command prompt. It's a security measure for some viruses.
You can only format partitions which does not contain current operating system
The only way to format windows partition is from windows boot cd

OK.
Put Windows CD in and follow the instructions (boot from CD) At some point it'll ask you to format:
Choose: NTFS

If you want to format your harddisk and reinstall windows
just start your laptop, with the xp installation disk in your cd drive.
make sure the bios is set to boot from cd
choose for clean install in the installation screen
and select to create new partitions and format them with filesystem ntfs.