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| 692056 | 2008-07-25 09:43:00 | Some sites say to press ctrl-alt-del. Does this work? If it does go to file/run and type in explorer.exe |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 692057 | 2008-07-25 09:51:00 | No I tryed that. Also tryed the fixboot that wainuitech suggested. Got a few people looking round for XP Media CD, might get hold of one yet. |
Driftwood (5551) | ||
| 692058 | 2008-07-26 00:32:00 | Had another couple of ideas about this prob. The data on the restore partition on the HD is probably untouched, at least by me anyway. Is there any way to reastablish the link to boot from it, maybe rewrite the boot.ini or boot loader. Or could it be written to a cd & booted from. |
Driftwood (5551) | ||
| 692059 | 2008-07-26 00:40:00 | No I dont think so. If the restore partition is still there, reboot and press F10 or whatever key to restore it, to its original install It may have ISO's in the restore partition folder (you'll have to burn them to cd's / dvd), before you'll be able to boot from cd/dvd. But then you'll have to remove the hdd, and put it in a working system. I dont think copying the whole restore partition folder (which would probably be bigger than a cd (you'll need a dvd) will work. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 692060 | 2008-07-26 01:23:00 | Thanks speedy. But the F10 dosent work anymore since the repair install. Thats why I'm concidering other options in case I can't get hold of a Media Center CD. |
Driftwood (5551) | ||
| 692061 | 2008-07-26 01:46:00 | Well it wont work if you just copy it to a cd or dvd. And I doubt it'll work, if you add it to boot.ini. Since its not bootable. Only other other thing you can do (if you can), is to remove the hdd and see if there are ISO's in the partition then burn them (you'll need a lot of cd's) |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 692062 | 2008-07-26 02:00:00 | Have you tried any of the other F keys F11 or F12 - got a customers HP PC here at the moment, the recovery partition is there, and meant to be F10, but it didn't work until I hit F12 - strange. | wainuitech (129) | ||
| 692063 | 2008-07-26 02:06:00 | No problem taking out the HD I've had it slaved to another system to scan it for nasties. Thats when I found the restore partition. What would I do with all the iso's? I have "Ultimate boot Disk" so I can eddit the boot.ini |
Driftwood (5551) | ||
| 692064 | 2008-07-26 02:17:00 | You need a burning program (Nero, or CDburnerXP, which is free) to burn the isos, to CD Depending on how many isos there are. Thats how many blank cds you need As I said editing the boot.ini file wont do anything |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 692065 | 2008-07-26 02:26:00 | Just looking at the contents of that partition now. Looks a bit much for me, I'll leave it for a last resort. Still waiting for the owner to get back to me RE what he want's to do (or spend) I see a copy of XP Media Center Edition on price spy for $157. |
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