Hi, There, I have an old Toshiba 1800 that has Window ME CD come along with the Laptop. I reformat the harddrive lately and try to reinstall from the manufacturer CD, I kept on getting Wrong Machine. Can anyone advise, how show I go about this ?

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Only Toshiba can advise you as to what to do now, and on an old machine, that's unlikely 
to happen.  You have a mismatch between the install/recovery CD and the BIOS signature, 
so there isn't anything you can do at this point except try and determine if the 
disc(s)are wrong, or if the BIOS has been modified, (such as having the machine repaired/serviced/motherboard 
replaced that would have changed the BIOS signature that the disc will check before 
allowing the install)







On Sunday, October 14, 2007 at 6:23 pm, Sunny Mak wrote:

>Hi, There, 

>

>I have an old Toshiba 1800 that has Window ME CD come along with the Laptop.

>I reformat the harddrive lately and try to reinstall from the manufacturer CD, I 

>kept on getting Wrong Machine.

>

>Can anyone advise, how show I go about this ? 

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I suppose the only other possibility might be to buy a Windows ME installation CD on E B A Y (the full install version, not the upgrade version), and try using that, instead of the crippled Toshiba installation CD.

Ed




On Monday, October 15, 2007 at 10:28 am, C K wrote:
>Only Toshiba can advise you as to what to do now, and on an old machine, that's unlikely
>to happen. You have a mismatch between the install/recovery CD and the BIOS signature,
>so there isn't anything you can do at this point except try and determine if the
>disc(s)are wrong, or if the BIOS has been modified, (such as having the machine repaired/serviced/motherboard
>replaced that would have changed the BIOS signature that the disc will check before
>allowing the install)
>
>
>

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