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| Thread ID: 108908 | 2010-04-16 06:54:00 | Laptop won't start up | karbren (14078) | Press F1 |
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| 877188 | 2010-04-16 07:46:00 | It may be that you can get a recovery DVD from here if you qualify:- www.fujitsu.com Phone number near the bottom of the page. HTH |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 877189 | 2010-04-16 07:51:00 | Only one guy I know but he is away in the North Island | karbren (14078) | ||
| 877190 | 2010-04-16 07:55:00 | Yes my desktop does have sata cable and ports for extra hdd, but is there a way to access hdd to reload anything from there | karbren (14078) | ||
| 877191 | 2010-04-16 08:08:00 | No laptop is not the models shown on the Fujitsu website | karbren (14078) | ||
| 877192 | 2010-04-16 08:21:00 | Cannot access hdd as it returns to the same message screen, won't accept Product recovery cd/dvd that came with the computer, when you go through F12 and select cd drive. | karbren (14078) | ||
| 877193 | 2010-04-16 08:28:00 | Probably have to remove the SATA hdd from the laptop then. Then connect the hdd from the laptop to one of the SATA ports. You may have to change the bootdisk in the BIOS to the XP hdd. Then boot into XP, copy the winload.exe file you copied to the flash drive to the SATA hdd you just connected |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 877194 | 2010-04-16 08:49:00 | Will try now that I can use the laptop, let you know later thanks. | karbren (14078) | ||
| 877195 | 2010-04-16 09:16:00 | There is another way without removing the laptops HDD and slaving. The below is the same thing as copying from one to the other but no need to remove the HDD. Go to the working Vista, copy the winload.exe from the working Machine to a USB drive. Put the USB drive in the unbootable Laptop , Boot from the Vista recovery CD - if you dont have one you can download it from This site (techblissonline.com) and burn the ISO file to CD using a ISO burning program, Put the CD in the Laptop thats broken and boot from the CD - when it boots, select Command prompt. Little bit of guess work here -- Assuming the OS is on the C drive and the optical drive is D , you have to find what drive the USB is.( thats the hardest part) At the command prompt, type in E <press Enter> type in dir , <press enter> If the usb drive is E it will show the files, if not try F, and repeat dir, Repeat again with the next letter ( G) if not F untill you get the USB drive. (Assuming its E) At the command prompt type E < press Enter> Then type in copy winload.exe c:\windows\system32 <Press enter> type Y if it asks to over write. You should get a message saying "copied 1 file" type in exit < press enter> Boot the laptop as normal, as long as thats the only damaged file(s) it should now boot normally. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 877196 | 2010-04-16 10:15:00 | I have found the winload.exe files but there are so many I actually am confused as to which one I copy unless i am in the wrong search? | karbren (14078) | ||
| 877197 | 2010-04-16 10:21:00 | There should only be one - can you see the .exe after the file name ? if not you need to go into folder options, untick "Hide extensions for known file types". Its in C:\windows\system32 folder This Example (www.imagef1.net.nz) this is from a W7 PC, but same location |
wainuitech (129) | ||
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