BishopY2J Posted August 21, 2004 Share Posted August 21, 2004 I have a eBUDDIE laptop and the cd rom does not seem to be working. when i put the xp disc in and it does the PRESS ANY KEY TO BOOT FROM CD. so i hit the ANY key (jk) and then i get a error:MEMORY OVERFLOWso then i got a usb Iomega cdrom and tried find a usb boot disk, then found out that you have to create one urself. then i found in the bios that it supports booting from a usb cdrom but when i tried that it frooze or i got another error. Any help on this matter would be much appreciated. Thanks!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arablizzard2413 Posted August 21, 2004 Share Posted August 21, 2004 If the BIOS showed the "press any key to boot from cd" message, then the cd-rom drive must still be working (because it read the CD and got data from it). The Memory Overflow message can occur when your system runs out of resources (I think, that's been past experience, I've never had this happen to me with the XP cd). How old is the laptop and how much memory does it have? Windows XP needs at least 64 megabytes (more is always better). Have you tried using the Windows XP boot disks (you can download the images from Microsoft to make you're own floppies)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BishopY2J Posted August 22, 2004 Author Share Posted August 22, 2004 i think it has 64 mb. install xp from boot disk? think using another os would be better like w2k pro? but through boot disk. as for the cdrom it was the usb cd rom i got the machine to boot from, then i got that memory overflow error. when i tried w/ the internal cd rom i got a message that it couldnt find the Boot Sector from the disk. not reallly sure how old the machine is but all i know is that it was made by eBuddie. never heard of them. would fdisk work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrzycrim Posted August 22, 2004 Share Posted August 22, 2004 Win XP Pro System RequirementsWin 2000 System Requirements64MB is the bare mininum required for 2000 and XP but it's recommended to have more. I personally wouldn't want to run XP on anything less than 256. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BishopY2J Posted August 22, 2004 Author Share Posted August 22, 2004 so maybe its just a memory issue. but what does the Memory OVerflow error mean? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BishopY2J Posted August 22, 2004 Author Share Posted August 22, 2004 i just checked the memory stick inside the laptop and it was 512... the person who was trying to fix this before me used 98 bootdisks and boot up through the floppy, but nothing else. so when i got the machine, i see the Windows 98 screen flash (from the boot disk) when i booted off the 98 cd i was in dos mode. dont know how to install OS from dos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arablizzard2413 Posted August 22, 2004 Share Posted August 22, 2004 no no no, Windows XP has a set of boot disks that you can download and put onto a floppy.Windows XP Professional Boot DisksWindows XP Home Edition Boot DisksWindows XP Professional sp1 Boot DisksWindows XP Home Edition sp1 Boot DisksWindows XP Professional sp1a Boot DisksWindows XP Home Edition sp1a Boot DisksWindows XP Professional sp2 Boot DisksWindows XP Home Edition sp2 Boot DisksChoose your version of Windows, and use the floppies you make to run the setup for Windows XP (it will start setup from the floppies and then it will ask for the Windows XP cd later on...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BishopY2J Posted August 22, 2004 Author Share Posted August 22, 2004 ok i will give that a try.. thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BishopY2J Posted August 24, 2004 Author Share Posted August 24, 2004 it worked.. booted xp pro from the floopy's then put the cd in and got the os to install. thank you so much for all your help. sorry about not responding quicker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arablizzard2413 Posted August 25, 2004 Share Posted August 25, 2004 It's fine, no problem at all I'm glad it worked for you, I've never had much luck with usb cd-roms when it came to booting... oh well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex298 Posted October 18, 2005 Share Posted October 18, 2005 Hello, My computer RAM: 512 MBCPU: Intel P4 1.6 MHzI have the same problem with my iBuddie 4 NoteBook. I don't don't know why the CD-ROM is always in problem. I replaced at least 8 new CD-ROMs in the past three years. Now the CD-ROM cannot be found on the market. And there is no Floppy Disk for my NoteBook. The only way I can do is using USB CD-ROM.I need to format and re-install os due to some problem. I put the Windows 2000 disc in and hit ANY key when it prompt the message "PRESS ANY KEY TO BOOT FROM CD" and then I got the same error:MEMORY OVERFLOWPlease advise what can I do. I cannot follow the same steps as previous suggestions since there is no Floppy Drive in my NoteBook.Thanks and best regardsAlex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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