I have a Gateway laptop which has XP loaded on it. One day the laptop just decided to not turn on anymore. I turn it on, see the Gateway Screen with it's options, then it goes to a black screen. I have my startup disk and i'm FULLY prepared to reinstall windows and erase everything on my computer, but when I get to that screen to do so (choosing destructive reformat or whatever) it starts, but then never finishes. I gave it to my tech people at the college, but they're seemingly incompetent, so I've come to you guys looking for an answer.
I recently purchased a HP Laptop, model DV7-1020US. Here are a few specifications.
Processor # Processor Intel Core 2 Duo P7350 / 2 GHz # Multi-Core processor technology Dual-Core # 64-bit processor Yes # Data bus speed 1066 MHz # Cache Memory # Type L2 cache # Cache size 3 MB.........
So, unhappy with the amount of processes from HP and also vista taking up the laptop's performance, I decided to re-install Windows Xp 64 Bit OS. The first thing I do is pop in the install CD, which takes me to the "WIndows setup starting.. etc, and says loading drivers, etc, and as soon as it gets to "Windows setup is starting up.. (the one after it loads the neccessary files) I immediately bluescreen with this message : A problem has been detected.......
I have a Toshiba laptop that I would like to reinstall/restore to the factory delivered state so username wizard etc opens on next reboot. I don't have the recovery CD. There doesn't seem to be any EISA partition on the machine, but there is an I386 folder in C:, is that sufficient? Code: partition 1,C:(55GB)I386 TOSHIBA WINDOWSpartition 2, D: 55GB
reinstalling win 2000 on a laptop. In the past when I have needed to wipe an installation, I have just pulled the drive and put it into another of my machines to clean the hard drive to start all over and proceed that way. That being said, I have never done one with a laptop. I have a laptop that an aunt asked me to wipe. She does not remember the login password.
1. Within hours or days of installing XP I get blue screen of death even though I formatted C drive. I try to repair it with boot CD but it NEVER finds a previous version of windows to repair. So I try stuff in recovery console such as replacing my ntfs file (was told to do this by someone) but that doesn't help. Then I attempted to chkdsk but 30 minutes later it's only at 20%. May as well just reinstall!
2. My laptop often just cuts the power. I think this is due to overheating but to be honest when it cuts sometimes it's hot and sometimes it is not. I have ordered a cooling mat and in the meantime I have a big office fan blasting it on full power, seems to help. I'm also considering buying compressed air can.................
I didn't use the laptop for about 3-4 months and when I powered it on and it would not boot into Windows. It would get to the Windows 2000 start up screen and just stop responding after the status bar reach about 3/4 way. I tried booting into last known good config with no success and tried booting into Safe Mode with no success so finally I just decided to re-install windows from scratch. I was able to boot from CD and re-format the drive but now I get the blue screen of death after getting about 3/4 of the way through install stating something about a possible hardware change. There have been no changes to the hardware and I have tried several times with the same results.
I have recently deleted my XP partition and attempted reinstalling XP due to degrading performance. Yes I took that way out. While installing, or often before, the power randomly cuts off with no warning at random places. Last time I did this I just had to keep trying all night until one time it worked long enough to install.
I'm trying to reinstall XP on my Sony Vaio laptop after having to replace the hard drive. It won't boot from the CD - it just tells me that the operating system is not found. I had that much figured out. I'm no computer whiz, but it looks to me like the drive IS recognized in the BIOS. I even loaded the XP onto a flash drive and tried to boot from that.
I have a laptop on which windows xp home is installed on c drive. It has a hard didk of 160gb all on c drive. Whenever i reinstall windows on my laptop all my data get erased. Is it possible to make another drive and allocate some 80 gb to it so that on reinstalling the data does not get erased.
I decided to "reinstall" Windows XP on my laptop. I stuck the reinstall disk into the computer and let it go. After about 1 hour of "reinstalling", the computer restarted, after that, the window was only one half the size and I couldn't change the monitor resolution size. (but, it showed the old desktop information so I knew right away that I hadn't actually reinstalled to the original state, but just reinstalled over the current desktop).
I restarted the computer to see if the window screen would enlarge to the full size. It did return to the full screen size, but Now, it freezes at the part of startup where the screen says "Windows is starting up". I left it on for 20 minutes and it was still frozen. SHould I insert the Windows XP disk again, to start over or what? Or click reboot after hitting the F2 button??
I want to reinstall Windows XP on our Toshiba laptop but I don't want to reinstall from the Toshiba disks due to the bloatware that the disks installs (like the disk utility, antivirus, etc software). I'd like to install the OS from a Microsoft Windows XP CD but wondered if the Microsoft disk would even install onto the Toshiba and if so, would the laptop function properly? Thanks.
I have a HP ze5568cl laptop (Windows XP SP2). For a few years we've had trouble with the power connector. We've just wiggled the power cable to keep it connected and lived with the problem. It also gets very hot and the fan runs constantly. Yesterday when I powered it on there was no power, absolutely nothing. My husband has some electronic knowledge so we took the laptop apart and he soldered the loose part of the power connector. While he was doing that I cleaned the fan (couldn't believe how much dust was in there.When we plugged in the power cable the orange light came on so we were excited. When we powered it on all the keyboard lights lit up so we thought we had fixed the problem but.that's all it did. It went no further except that the fan kicked on.There is a clicking noise coming from the cd drive about every second with the green light flashing. I suppose it is checking to see if there is a bootable cd in the cd drive. I have attempted to change the boot order by holding F1, then F2 but it still continues to try to read the cd drive. I can't get to the screen that will allow me to change the boot order.
I also put the OS disk in the cd drive, hoping that it would start with the disk but it just clicks. Hubby removed the cover of the cd drive and I could see that the cd is spinning.There were no problems with this laptop prior to the power problem. It was really working very well especially considering the age of it. The information in my sig is not for the computer with the problem. It's actually for an old computer which my son now has at college.
The problem is the HD failed. So I put in another HD and reinstalled win XP pro. Everything was fine until this morning. I got up to find it had rebooted in the night and failed to boot up again. I get an error message that says boot failure system security something has failed to initialize due to hardware attatched to your computer is no longer functioning. I've loaded fail safe settings in bios nothing. I thought I'd reinstall windows but once windows starts to boot the keyboard and mouse are no longer recognized. I can't tell it to boot from CD.
blue srceen tried safemode reinstall a fix on pc that worked but not this time keeps booting back to registry- error a problem has been detected windows has to shut down but freezes their hold button a lot of times to shut down. laptop is dell insprion 8200. I can get into bios to run xp cd repair but keeps going back to blue nightmare. error reads If problems continue, disable or remove any newly Installed hardware software disable BIOS memery options such as caching or shadowing. use safemode stop: DX0000005 (OX00000001, OXE15D9008 ,OX005CE000,Ox000001D6)
I wanted to reinstall Xp Home Edition on my Sony Vaio because I felt that I wanted to start fresh again. I lost my cd so I went on another forum and they told me to run the program called winnt32.exe in the folder C:windowssystem32I386. I did that and I reinstalled xp. After it restarted, It asked me which system I wanted to boot: Windows Xp Home Edition or Windows XP Home edition. I clicked on the new one (which I presumed to be the top one) and found that I could not log in. It just took me to the desktop and there was nothing on it.I also found that I could not use the standby feature. It is pretty much like safe mode except for the fact that I can go on the internet. Now I am faced with two problems.1. How do i get rid of that new dual boot partition 2.How do I reinstall XP on my old partition?
I need to reinstall my windows XP on a new system that i am building. My old system has died and I do have a Boot CD from my "UPGRADE" version from the OLD machine. Will i be able to load the upgrade version (i have my XP Disk) from the old machine on my new machine starting with the Boot CD?
All things were fine and I had XP pro and XP home installed and working on seperate drives. I have just reinstalled XP pro and now on booting, no option to choose either operating system appears. I have done some searching and have seen references to copying a boot file from the CD and placing it into the XP home operating system to fix this. The instructions were not that detailed and not directly related to having 2 XP installs. nearly all search results I have found related to Xp dual booting with Vista. I have been thinking of now copying ALL the files from the XP Home operating system into the new XP Pro and then reinstalling the XP Home system. Sigh. I cannot use the system repair/recovery option as I do not know the Admin password. where did I put that? Is there an easy fix to get the dual boot working again?
Last year I installed Ubuntu 9.04 on my Dell Dimension 5000 running Windows XP Pro, giving me a trouble-free dual boot system until recently. Recently though, I've had problems with Windows being excruciatingly slow, some crashes, unexplained error messages etc - probably partly due to a load of unnecessary and now unwanted programs I've installed along the way. I would now like to start afresh with a clean reinstall of Windows - but am worried about possible complications with my Ubuntu installation and some horror stories I've heard about messing with the Master Boot Record. I do not wish to remove Ubuntu, and have had no problems with it.
Can I simply format my C drive and just install Windows again? Or am I rushing in where angels fear to tread? I have my Win XP Pro disk. I've reinstalled Windows in the past, but that was before I had installed Ubuntu.
I had to re-install my Win 2K server. The second partition has Windows XP on it and and XP doesn't boot up after the re-install. The error message I get is it cannot find the SYSTEMd file under the Config folder and it is trying to boot Win 2K instead of XP.
My PC is a bit slow, and it's collected a lot of rubbish since the last time i formatted it, so i wanna format it today since I've got a lot of free time on my hands.I wanted to format it, then i thought about Boot & Nuke. How hard is it to reinstall windows after running DBAN ? what are the procedures to get XP back on my machine?
My comp is acting weird so i decided to either repair windows or reinstall windows, but after it says press any key to boot from cd, and i press a key, i get a blank screen or it loads windows.
I have had a similar post before but the difference now is the Blue Screen comes up immediately. I tried to boot in safe mode and the last known good boot and neither works.
when i start up my laptop, it gets to the windows XP loading thing, it loads, and to contact my administrator and all that jazz it won't boot up in safe mode or anything either, and it was working fine just last night.
I have a laptop that can't boot up.Normally I would run the recovery console and proceed from there, except I don't have the original cd to boot from. Can I use any XP Home or XP Pro to boot and use the recovery console from there or must it be the media centre cd? Also, all the material point to copying file(s) from c:windows e pair system
My laptop will not boot.It starts up and gets to the windows vista screen where it says: configuring update stage 3 of 3 0% and then restarts and does it all over again and again and , well you get the point. I have tried system repair and it cannot find errors or at least can't seem to fix anything. I have tried all system restore points, but to no avail. how can i solve this problem?
I have a Medion Laptop that's running windows xp, it was working perfectly fine until i restarted it and now i can't get it to boot up! When i try and load windows it comes up with a blue screen saying boot from floppy, cd rom or hard drive but when i pick any of them options it does nothing. I decided to try and install Windows again and it gets to the part where it says setup is starting windows then it starts beeping, After that it comes up with a blue screen saying the following "A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer. then it says " The problem seems to be caused by the following file: partmgr.sys" also underneath that it says PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA
I have an HP Pavillion DV2047cl laptop. It just kept rebooting itself when I tried to start it up so I tried to do a system restore with the disks that came with it. It worked for about a day now it won't boot up. It says INF file txtsetup.sif is corrupt or missing, status 14. Setup cannot complete. Error message 12544. I tried doing a system restore again but it stops partway through. Does anyone know what else I can try?
I am trying to upgrade the hard drive in a Thinkpad x60 laptop. I have a WD 120 gb SATA drive that I have tried to install with the Data Lifeguard tools. This does give you an option of installing the new drive as the new boot device, which is what I used. I did the installation with the drive attached to a USB port and an external enclosure.I have done this before with desktops without any problems. For this go around, the files seem to be copied correctly but the drive won't boot. I just get a blinking cursor. The drive is recognized when I attach is as an external drive.
