Motorola ML900 Help needed reloading OS
Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2015 8:48 pm
Hello guys, Here's the story:
I picked up a used ML900 second Gen with the 1.8 GHz Pentium M (Centrino) Processor. This laptop looks great but it has the rubber boot torn off the power button and the rubber seals torn off all the doors to make it waterproof. Why? Maybe the previous owner drank too much coffee? Anyways no big deal, I am not going swimming with it. It came with Windows 7 Professional and worked fine.
BUT!!! I need it to program radios so I decided to load XP over the Windows 7 Pro. So I started to load XP Pro over the 7 Pro and now I am screwed. The XP came up with errors and would not load & the 7 doesn't work either. Now I have a useless laptop that gives me an "error loading operating system" and that's it. I can't even boot from the CD or USB. Does anyone sell a restore disc for XP Pro for this system? I have the OEM COA Sticker so that is not a problem. Any ideas on the next step or a direction to go in would be greatly appreciated.
I picked up a used ML900 second Gen with the 1.8 GHz Pentium M (Centrino) Processor. This laptop looks great but it has the rubber boot torn off the power button and the rubber seals torn off all the doors to make it waterproof. Why? Maybe the previous owner drank too much coffee? Anyways no big deal, I am not going swimming with it. It came with Windows 7 Professional and worked fine.
BUT!!! I need it to program radios so I decided to load XP over the Windows 7 Pro. So I started to load XP Pro over the 7 Pro and now I am screwed. The XP came up with errors and would not load & the 7 doesn't work either. Now I have a useless laptop that gives me an "error loading operating system" and that's it. I can't even boot from the CD or USB. Does anyone sell a restore disc for XP Pro for this system? I have the OEM COA Sticker so that is not a problem. Any ideas on the next step or a direction to go in would be greatly appreciated.