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| Thread ID: 108618 | 2010-04-05 01:43:00 | Boot up problems with Compaq Notebook | straka01 (310) | Press F1 |
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| 872992 | 2010-04-05 06:38:00 | Not being familiar with SLIPSTREAMING (just looked it up on WIKIPEDIA) let me clarify what I need to do. Find out the Intel Chipset, download the SATA drivers, and <i>somehow</i> slipstream them onto the XP pro OS CD. Is that right? |
straka01 (310) | ||
| 872993 | 2010-04-05 07:04:00 | If you want to try the system restore option - in post #8 I put a link to UBCD4Win - this "should" boot OK from the optical drive, its a 255MB Download that you can make a bootable repair CD from, one of the MANY options is to run windows system restore - it also ( from Memory) allows you to run the command prompt to run various fixes as well. Some antivirus software detects it as a virus, its NOT - just some of teh tools in it appear to be viruses. simply disable your AV while its downloading. To slip stream you would use a program like Nlite (http://www.nliteos.com/) - download the sata drivers, then pays to copy the whole XP CD to the Working HDD, work through the process, and make a new XP CD. |
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| 872994 | 2010-04-05 07:51:00 | I'm downloading UBCD4WIN 3.5.0 now - it's 255mb! I've received 22% at present. I made a mistake - the OS is XP Home. I have an XP Home CD as well and tried that to Repair - same result - bummer. I'm thinking that if this boot CD doesn't work I have 2x options: Tell her to take it to a PC Repair shop, or get a new HDD for the Laptop and install the OS freshly for her. I do these repairs for free in my spare time - trouble is, when they're time consuming - it eliminates all my spare time completely. Not good for my family life. Thanks everyone for your help. When this download completes I'll try booting from the Optical Drive. Will keep you posted. |
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