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| 253145 | 2004-07-17 23:42:00 | A neighbour has been given a Laptop running XP professional. It is a slow device – outdated and has served its purpose. She wants it rigging up as a spare to use for minor tasks and has asked me to sort it out for them. Unfortunately it is running in Chinese. I know nothing about Chinese. I have a start up floppy from my own laptop, which works well with it but I cannot find any other hard drive (I thought about formatting the C drive and putting in an OS from one of my old dumped computers). I would appreciate advice about getting the thing sorted. I hoped to use my own laptop to test out ideas and follow through with the Chinese one but they do seem to have differences. | Thomas01 (317) | ||
| 253146 | 2004-07-18 00:11:00 | From my experience with Japanese and Hebrew windows, I find them to be identical. Merely the interface language is different. You can't find "any other hard drive" when using a startup floppy. Does this mean you can find the C-drive, but no other? Why do you think there is another? Does this mean the windows won't boot? If so what error message do you get? Is the bios in English? More info needed. Dan |
nadius (3249) | ||
| 253147 | 2004-07-18 00:57:00 | Reason I think for not seeing the hard drive. boot disk is 9x and the hard drive has NTFS file system. As for the chinese OS, the buttons, tick boxes and radio buttons are in the same place just the lanuage changes (hope your memory is good :D ). Try setting it side by side with english version xp pro machine and mimick your actions from the english version to the chinese version. Thats what I did the last time I had a Asian version os, worked for me. |
beama (111) | ||
| 253148 | 2004-07-18 01:03:00 | To nadius and beama There appears to be NO drive at all including the C drive. And yes I think the reason is the XP Professional operating system - I notice my XP Home OS warns me that the professional cannot be uninstalled if NTFS has been "done" or something like that. I tried running my laptop alongside it and copying my actions but they are different. I would just like to reformat the C drive and install an old version of Windows98 if I could find out how to make a virgin computer of the thing. |
Thomas01 (317) | ||
| 253149 | 2004-07-18 01:21:00 | Download a Windows Me bootdisk from here (www.bootdisk.com). Boot with it and run fdisk. This will be able to see the NTFS partition and delete it (through option 4. Delete non-dos partition -or something worded to that effect) Then create a partition on your now empty hard disk and install windows. Use the Windows Me OEM version bootdisk available at the above website. Dan |
nadius (3249) | ||
| 253150 | 2004-07-18 01:29:00 | a correction to the above: in fdisk first choose 3. Delete partition or logical drive. THEN 4. Delete non-dos partition (in case you're not familiar with fdisk) |
nadius (3249) | ||
| 253151 | 2004-07-18 04:52:00 | Ok... I still don't quite understand what you want done? Do you want to format the computer and reinstall everything? In which case, whether it is in Chinese should not matter, just put a boot disk in, and format, etc. and then fire away. There really shouldn't be any difference between the English and Chinese version, just the appearance for the text. |
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