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| 682777 | 2008-06-26 22:43:00 | My daughter is the No 2 teacher in a small 2 teacher country school in Central Hawkes Bay The school has a donated computer suite made up mainly of old COMPAQ Presario S6010AN computers running Windows XP . Recently one of the computers has been corrupted beyond recovery and I have discovered 2 disturbing things . 1 - The organisation that donated these, reformatted the Drives for obvious reasons, but in so doing also destroyed the Recovery Partition . In the short term I am going to Clone a good drive onto the bad one, BUT I wonder if by any chance any one has a set of recovery CD's for this model . I can "try" and get a set out of Compaq/HP but that will cost and the school has no spare money . 2 - The second problem is that I have discovered that these computers only have 128meg Ram and of course are incredibly slow . These are PC2700 (CCR-333 CL2 . 5) Inferion modules) and I wonder if anyone has some spare compatable SDRAM of any size that they would be prepared to donate . I dont care what size becuase any extra would help, so if someone has a box of old 128 or 256 meg modules I (and the school) would be very grateful . I will of course pay for the freight for anything donated . Thanks Guys for any help you are able to give . |
Tony.br (4018) | ||
| 682778 | 2008-06-26 23:41:00 | For yr recovery,what about trying a linux live cd and get all the important folders on to a CD or DVD or another partition and then why not put a linux OS on so the pupils get a feel for something other than windows. | kjaada (253) | ||
| 682779 | 2008-06-27 00:00:00 | Regarding cloning the Drive - Unless both PC's have the same hardware, the clone may not work as drivers for one, may not work on the other. In regards to reinstalling, get hold of a windows XP cd, use the product key that is meant to be stuck to the PC and install from that, go to HP's Web site and download the drivers and install. Driver Download (h10025.www1.hp.com) for the COMPAQ Presario S6010AN |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 682780 | 2008-06-27 00:28:00 | Hi Kjaada Your suggestion is quite valid EXCEPT all the Educational software they use (its a primary school of about 40 pupils) is Windows based Thanks for your interest though. |
Tony.br (4018) | ||
| 682781 | 2008-06-27 00:31:00 | A live linux cd will have no problem with windows stuff and you may be able to recover everything then straighten out the OS | kjaada (253) | ||
| 682782 | 2008-06-27 00:32:00 | Regarding cloning the Drive - Unless both PC's have the same hardware, the clone may not work as drivers for one, may not work on the other. In regards to reinstalling, get hold of a windows XP cd, use the product key that is meant to be stuck to the PC and install from that, go to HP's Web site and download the drivers and install. Driver Download (h10025.www1.hp.com) for the COMPAQ Presario S6010AN Actually the clone process worked 100% and I have used keychanger to change the product code to the one attached to the computer. Its going perfectly now and this will be my option at least for these models. Some others in the room are a different brand and they will not be as easy and will require a new install. |
Tony.br (4018) | ||
| 682783 | 2008-06-27 01:12:00 | Make Ghost images now and put them somewhere safe. And yeah - I've seen XP on a lot of old Underpowered PCs, WHY do people do that!! You could try Trademe for some old RAM, also maybe somewhere like the ARk in Auckland? |
pctek (84) | ||
| 682784 | 2008-06-27 08:51:00 | I've seen XP on a lot of old Underpowered PCs, WHY do people do that!! I do that...mostly cos they have to! |
zahmad (8963) | ||
| 682785 | 2008-06-27 21:23:00 | I do that...mostly cos they have to! Crap. Why do you HAVE to. |
pctek (84) | ||
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