I have just tried to restore my laptop to factory settings using the recovery DVD. however part way through this process my DVD drive has broken and now I cannot boot from the DVD and windows will not start as it did prior to this (I am posting this from a friends computer)
View 4 RepliesI have an old laptop. It was used in my parent's office, and since they got new computers I get to take the old one home. However, the use in the office took its toll and now it takes hours to open certain programs like firefox, it can't detect my home internet at all, and the cd drive is broken.
I wanted to reformat it, so without the cd drive I had to copy the contents of the OS disk to a USB flash drive to install XP from there. However, I had over 10 gigs worth of office data I wanted to back up, and without internet access or an external storage drive I wanted to make a primary partition(that can act as a backup which survives a reformat) out of available spaces of my C: using the program called Partitionmagic
I have a laptop that I just got my hands on, it's a Dell Inspiron 8200, has windows XP Pro (service pack 2) on it. I need to reformat it, however, the cd drive doesnt really work anymore (this is the second cd drive its had). I would rather not spend money on a cd drive or anything, and was wondering if there was anyway to use a boot disk to format it, then if there was any way to install network drivers and use a network to install windows. That at least is my present theory of how to go about this, but I'm not sure if it's even possible, and I'm searching around online right now.
View 1 Replies View RelatedMy WD passport drive just stop working with 400GB data in it. But the inbuilt virtual CD drive is still working. and for the Storage drive, its showing capacity of zero bytes.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI spotted that it's named Recovery, i open it and there's nothing in it...but when it's in a .rar it shows everything that it has in it, when i extracted it showed nothing, i think they're hidden
View 10 Replies View RelatedHeres a real test. What or where is there information about hard drive recovery particularly "fdisk" and then 3% into formatting on XP os?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI neeed to recover my hard drive but it is a work laptop and I dont have the Windows-XP Pro CD. I could send the machine back to the head office but I will end up with a formatted drive which I dont want. Is there any way I can restore from an ASR backup without going into Xp Setup?
View 1 Replies View Relatedi have a HP Pavilion laptop which is about a month or so old. The D drive is labeled as the HP Recovery drive and it is roughly 12 gb. It is formatted in FAT32. I just analyzed it with the disk defrag and it was almost 100% red. The report says the total fragmentation is 47% and the file fragmentation is 97%. Should I defragment this or is it supposed to be this way? And if it's not supposed to be this way does anyone know how or why this happened?
View 14 Replies View RelatedI bought a laptop and burned 4 recovery CDs for recovery purpose. Instead of burning as disc images, I just copied and pasted these 4 CDs to my USB HDD as 4 folders called "RecoveryCD 1", "RecoveryCD 2", "RecoveryCD 3" and "RecoveryCD 4". Now my laptop got problem and I lost my 4 recovery CDs. All I have now is 4 recovery folders in my USB HDD. I burned another 4 CDs as data disc from my USB HDD, but it didn't work out (it didn't boot because they are just data discs). I again burned my first recovery CD as a bootable CD, and it booted but didn't automatically install XP, drivers and other softwares. It just appeared some sentences on a black screen and cursor is waiting for me to type after the text, "A:>".
View 5 Replies View RelatedMy niece has a Toshiba Satellite laptop on which the harddrive died. My aunt ordered a new drive from newegg a couple of days ago. My question is this, will her Toshiba Recovery CD's work on the new hard drive or will she need an actual reinstallation CD for XP home? Thank you for any help in this matter.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI am looking at my partition and for some weird reason it is saying Partition 1 inactive. How do i correct this so i can recover data of this drive.
Recently, my computer has recieved a massive error. Upon startup, the windows xp logog displays and the little blue bar starts moving, then about 1 second later the bar freezes, and BSOD STOP: 0x7e appears. Nothing helps this (restart, last known good config, safe more, and i have no clue why all of a sudden I'm getting this). So, I went to the recovery console with the Win XP install disk. I hit R, it all loads, then where it asks "Which Windows installation would you like to log into?" it displays
View 14 Replies View RelatedThe other day my computer crashed during log off. When I turned it on again, i ended up with a blue screen saying 'unbootable boot volume' . I guess at this point i should have sent it to a technician!...anyway i found a number of forum posts with the same problem and followed the instructions to do 'chkdsk' from MS DOS. This looked to be doing stuff.... but now... instead of a blue screen I get nothing...the screen just goes blank!
I found myself facing a black screen with this text:"We appologize for the inconvenience, but Windows did not start successfully. A recent hardware or software change might have caused this.It your computer stopped responding, restarted unexpectedly, or was automaticlly shutdown to protect your files and folder, choose last known good configuration to revet to the most recent settings that worked.If a previous start up attempt was interrupted due to a power failure or because the powe or reset button was pressed, or if you aren't sure what caused the problem choose start windows normally
View 11 Replies View RelatedSo I had a failed boot with following message: "Windows XP could not start Additional message said to fix with recovery console from XP installation disk.I did that and Recovery fails because hard drive not detected. I went into bios configuration and no listing of primary ide enabled. What should I do? I checked all the connections and everything is connected. How can I bring my hard drive on line for a recovery?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI am attempting to format my hard drive by booting up using a windows xp disc, and entering the recovery console. After the drivers and such have loaded up and I enter the recovery console, I type format c:, it asks me for confirmation and I type yes. When I press enter, the screen looks as though it is loading for a second but then just returns to the recovery console without having done anything. I try typing the command in again and again nothing happens. When I reboot the computer, my hard drive has not been formatted.How can I get the recovery console to actually format my hard drive?
View 14 Replies View RelatedSome USB things work fine- others not at all (but work on other computers.) My XP machine has always worked fine in recognizing USB devices-- but recently did not recognize my scanner and two USB thumb drives (one brand new and one I've had for a couple years). The Thumb drives and scanner work fine on other computers.
he same machine uses a USB mouse and a USB connection to my printer (Brother HL-1440). They continue to work fine. I noticed it first with the scanner- It worked fine before New Year-- but not since. Then tried Thumb drives and recognized the same pattern. (Again, they work fine on other computers).Is it possible that Plug-n-Play is broken? With XP the drives are �built-in� and have always recognized Thumb drives (or external hard drives, etc). I did try uninstalling the driver for the Scanner and installing it again- to no avail.
i am trying the command ipconfig and it wont work. i went to run and typed ipconfig and cmd opened and closed. i opened cmd and typed ipconfig and it said "C:Documents and SettingsJesse>ipconfig'ipconfig' is not recognized as an internal or external command,operable program or batch file."
View 1 Replies View RelatedMy friend's computer seized up in the middle of the boot. Tried recovery, but it isn't able to go forward. The hard drive seemed to be spinning tho, so chances were good we could recover the data. I removed the hard drive and copied everything to a back-up external drive using my own computer. Replaced the hard drive in the disabled computer. Question is how do I install Windows XP? The recovery files on the hard drive are not accessible, I assume, so we can't use those - right? We misplaced the disks that came with the computer, so I'm buying a new copy of Windows XP.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI reformatted a crappy gate way which has a recovery partition, but it would not reformat the rigth way, when i went to set up windows, Push the next button, i big white box went over everything and that was that, i reformatted 3 times and it kept doing it, so i got a winxp pro disk and did it this way, everything works geat, but now, that damn partition is taking my drive letter C, and i have already read the thing from microsoft about regedit, i did it and i could not load windows, it froze after Loadined winxp, mouse moved but nothing happend, i reformatted again... still taking my drive letter.. please help, if i have to reformat one more time, i wish for it to be the last, and my drive letters to be right.. HELP!! THANKS
View 2 Replies View RelatedMy external hard drive has suddenly stopped working.My computer can see the drive (but not the drive label) and the shortcut I have for the drive will open it but when it does there is nothing there.I have downloaded a few so called free data recovery pieces of software and they can all see the data on my drive with no problems, even stuff I'd previously deleted seems to be available for recovery, however, as soon as you try to recover the data these "free to use" tools need to be registered and paid for.
View 12 Replies View RelatedI am trying to format the computer, booting with xp disc and running recovery console, followed by typing map, then format C:it shows it formating, up to 100% then I type exit, as the computer boots up after that it just goes to the normal log in screen like nothing ever happened. After that I tried to install XP by deleting previous OS installation, it installed, but previous folders & files are still there and things are all messed up.Is there software that I dont need to pay for that will completely and totally wipe out everything on her HD? is there another method that will work?
View 12 Replies View RelatedI have a 60 gig hard drive and after i did a system recovery i only had 12 gigs free on the hard drive
View 3 Replies View RelatedI did a system restore on my laptop after recklessly cleaning files off of my hard drive. Since then I can't access my d:/, so I can't reinstall anything, including my internet and Microsoft Office software. If I look in the control panel I can see everything (I didn't lose any personal files), but D: always comes up as D:/RECOVERY, then fiendishly warns me not to look inside (which I haven't).
View 2 Replies View RelatedCurrently I reformat my laptop for some reason. I do some folder synchronization using SyncToy on WinXP to my external hard drive. After completing reinstall new WinXP with the same computer name and user account, I cant open my backup files due to the NTFS encryption is still with the files on by external hard drive. How can I recover those files?
View 2 Replies View RelatedThese two folders appeared some time back on my 250GB internal storage drive. The names of the folder are 15 characters long and are alphanumeric and have one subfolder in each named i386. And are ?0? in size. I first tried shift delete, ?Can?t remove access denied? I download and tried Erase. First with 1 pass, nothing? Not even an error! I went all out and did the Gutmann, 35 passes. Nothing and no error! The file just remains. For convenient sake I renamed the main folder to 1 and 2 and booted into the recovery consol and tried to delete it from there. Same thing! ?Can?t remove access denied? What the!!
View 9 Replies View RelatedWhen I attempted to start my computer, which is running Windows XP
Professional Edition, this morning, I received an error message saying Invalid Boot.iniWindows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
WindowsSystem32Hal.dllI researched this issue in the Microsoft Knowledge Base, which said to boot from the Windows XP CD-ROM and use the Recovery Console to perform the repairs. However, when I did, it said that Windows could not detect any hard drives and could not continue.
For approximately the past two months my background is set to a solid color. Believe me I have searched everywhere and tried just about everything. I cannot change the picture, only the color that I set for icon backgrounds. That sounds kind of confusing but I don't know how else to word it. Anyway, anyone have any ideas on how I can get my background picture back?
View 14 Replies View RelatedI am having the same problem as I read on an earlier post. My desktop background color can be changed, but I am unable to change my desktop to a photo background. I'm running Windows XP Pro on an IBM Thinkpad laptop. I've tried all the obvious solutions, but I can't get any results.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have replaced my harddrive and do not use my cd writer anymore. It has not worked in 2 years and I save files to the USB memory sticks. Is there a way to make restore "disks" without using cd's?
View 3 Replies View Relatedim using xp sp2 and i downloaded ancanced windows care3 and did a deep registry clean, it found 900 more problems than my noraml registry cleaner(tune-up utilities) so i decided do it. after i rebooted i played a game and my computer just froze still. i now have this persisting freezing that generally when i play a game or watch movies(otherwise it seems to be fine but does happen sometimes while even just idle or looking through files). i really think its my registry.
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