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How to restore when install disk fails
I managed to mess up a windows xp pro machine to where it now boots
but fails to recognize mouse or keyboard, I cannot get logged in since inserting the password requires a working keyboard. I've attempted to use a windows XP pro installation disk to try a restore. However I get a blue screen when it tries to start windows. I see the line.. `Setup is inspecting your machines hardware' Then windows setup comes up. `starting windows' then a while later the blue screen. Blue screen rough content: ,---- | A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent | damage to your computer. | | If this is the first time... blah blah... | | Blah blah | | Technical information | | ***Stop: 0x0000007b (0XF78D2524, 0XC0000034, 0X00000000, | 0X00000000) `---- The machine can boot as I've mentioned but has no mouse or keyboard. I've plugged usb mouse and keyboard directly to the back of this computer but still no cigar. Does anyone have a recommendation besides `reinstall'. I mean, that would be my very last resort since I have built up quite a handy system for my work. Maybe some kind of boot disk that would allow me to enter the password or by pass it ...? |
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Harry Putnam wrote:
I managed to mess up a windows xp pro machine to where it now boots but fails to recognize mouse or keyboard, I cannot get logged in since inserting the password requires a working keyboard. I've attempted to use a windows XP pro installation disk to try a restore. However I get a blue screen when it tries to start windows. I see the line.. `Setup is inspecting your machines hardware' Then windows setup comes up. `starting windows' then a while later the blue screen. Blue screen rough content: ,---- A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer. If this is the first time... blah blah... Blah blah Technical information ***Stop: 0x0000007b (0XF78D2524, 0XC0000034, 0X00000000, 0X00000000) `---- The machine can boot as I've mentioned but has no mouse or keyboard. I've plugged usb mouse and keyboard directly to the back of this computer but still no cigar. Does anyone have a recommendation besides `reinstall'. PS/2 mouse and KB -- dadiOH ____________________________ dadiOH's dandies v3.06... ....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that. Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico |
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How to restore when install disk fails
On 10/11/10 11:01 AM, Harry Putnam wrote:
I managed to mess up a windows xp pro machine to where it now boots but fails to recognize mouse or keyboard, I cannot get logged in since inserting the password requires a working keyboard. I've attempted to use a windows XP pro installation disk to try a restore. However I get a blue screen when it tries to start windows.... Maybe some kind of boot disk that would allow me to enter the password or by pass it ...? Does the keyboard show up if you enter the bios setup? You can test the mouse hardware by booting with a Linux live disk. This one will also change the passwords, and it looks like it'll work with the mouse: Search for ophcrack-xp-livecd-2.3.1 |
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How to restore when install disk fails
On 10/11/2010 12:01 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
I managed to mess up a windows xp pro machine to where it now boots but fails to recognize mouse or keyboard, I cannot get logged in since inserting the password requires a working keyboard. I've attempted to use a windows XP pro installation disk to try a restore. However I get a blue screen when it tries to start windows. I see the line.. `Setup is inspecting your machines hardware' Then windows setup comes up. `starting windows' then a while later the blue screen. Blue screen rough content: ,---- | A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent | damage to your computer. | | If this is the first time... blah blah... | | Blah blah | | Technical information | | ***Stop: 0x0000007b (0XF78D2524, 0XC0000034, 0X00000000, | 0X00000000) `---- The machine can boot as I've mentioned but has no mouse or keyboard. I've plugged usb mouse and keyboard directly to the back of this computer but still no cigar. Does anyone have a recommendation besides `reinstall'. I mean, that would be my very last resort since I have built up quite a handy system for my work. Maybe some kind of boot disk that would allow me to enter the password or by pass it ...? Try dadiOH's suggestion and use a PS2 keyboard. As for the 0x7b error that is a drive controller error, you need to use the F6 method to load Mass Storage controller drivers. John |
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John John - MVP writes:
Try dadiOH's suggestion and use a PS2 keyboard. As for the 0x7b error that is a drive controller error, you need to use the F6 method to load Mass Storage controller drivers. That is likely to be a sata cdrom I installed some time ago. Oddly it works to run the windows install media but is not seen by the booted OS. Since I have neither PS2 mouse or keyboard, that is not so easily done, but also the machine has been running fine with usb of them and over a KVM, until recently. |
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boatman312 writes:
On 10/11/10 11:01 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: I managed to mess up a windows xp pro machine to where it now boots but fails to recognize mouse or keyboard, I cannot get logged in since inserting the password requires a working keyboard. I've attempted to use a windows XP pro installation disk to try a restore. However I get a blue screen when it tries to start windows.... Maybe some kind of boot disk that would allow me to enter the password or by pass it ...? Does the keyboard show up if you enter the bios setup? Yes, I just checked. In the bios I see 2 keyboards and 4 mice listed as being installed. The machine is still attached to KVM switch as well as individual mouse and keyboard I mentioned. You can test the mouse hardware by booting with a Linux live disk. Mouse hardware works when booted with trinity-4.3 linux resuce disc Where would I find the last good copy of the registry. I can access all that through the linux disc. Is it possible to rename a working registry to an older one? |
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How to restore when install disk fails
On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 10:01:26 -0500, Harry Putnam
wrote: I managed to mess up a windows xp pro machine to where it now boots but fails to recognize mouse or keyboard, I cannot get logged in since inserting the password requires a working keyboard. I've attempted to use a windows XP pro installation disk to try a restore. However I get a blue screen when it tries to start windows. That seems very strange. Unless you mean you're in windows when you run it. Have you tried setting the CD rom as the first boot device and booting from the XP installation disk? That should always work. When given the first opportunity to enter R, that will be the R-ecovery Console. You don't want that. Take the other option and at the next choice pick R for repair. It takes as long as installing Windows does, but I just did this and got back parts of my system that had been deleted along with viruses, by virus scanners. If you have no CD drive, you should be able to boot from USB, probably from a USB CD drive, worth having under these circumstances. Let us know how this turns out. I see the line.. `Setup is inspecting your machines hardware' Then windows setup comes up. `starting windows' then a while later the blue screen. Blue screen rough content: ,---- | A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent | damage to your computer. | | If this is the first time... blah blah... | | Blah blah | | Technical information | | ***Stop: 0x0000007b (0XF78D2524, 0XC0000034, 0X00000000, | 0X00000000) `---- The machine can boot as I've mentioned but has no mouse or keyboard. I've plugged usb mouse and keyboard directly to the back of this computer but still no cigar. Does anyone have a recommendation besides `reinstall'. I mean, that would be my very last resort since I have built up quite a handy system for my work. Maybe some kind of boot disk that would allow me to enter the password or by pass it ...? |
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mm writes:
[...] I've attempted to use a windows XP pro installation disk to try a restore. However I get a blue screen when it tries to start windows. That seems very strange. Unless you mean you're in windows when you run it. No Have you tried setting the CD rom as the first boot device and booting from the XP installation disk? Of course . . . . . . . . . . . . . . That should always work. When given the first opportunity to enter R, that will be the R-ecovery Console. You don't want that. Take the other option and at the next choice pick R for repair. It takes as long as installing Windows does, but I just did this and got back parts of my system that had been deleted along with viruses, by virus scanners. In this case it does not work. I boot from the installation media, and I tried both of those I have on hand. They both are full windowsXP installation CDs. It boots and shows the lines of output previously posted: `Setup is inspecting your machines hardware' Then windows setup comes up and lots of drivers and such are loaded. Then I see: `starting windows' Shortly after that the blue screen Blue screen content: ,---- | A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent | damage to your computer. | | If this is the first time... blah blah... | | Blah blah | | Technical information | | ***Stop: 0x0000007b (0XF78D2524, 0XC0000034, 0X00000000, | 0X00000000) Remember now that this machine will boot into windows XP without any help. Its just that certain things that were installed and working (some for mnths) now are not recognized. The killers are mouse and keyboard do not work, so can't even get logged on. Seems like what is happening is windows has reverted to a previous registry state from some time ago. But that still does not explain why installation media crashes as it does but at the same time windowsXP can boot and run on the same machine. I think I might like to just reinstall completely but I hate having to diddle around with getting things recognized... especially the delta66 card which has been a problem on 2 machines. Once it is installed properly though, it can't be beat for my needs. Someone suggested using the F6 option on a reinstall which I assume is to allow user to insert special drivers, like for the cdrom drive. I don't understand how it can need special drivers when I am booting from that very drive... and the windows driver package gets loaded, but that aside maybe someone knows about a driver for that cdrom drive mentioned below. `Lite-on Ihas324 sata cdrom' I looked around on google and on lite-on home pages and have not found such a driver. |
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On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 09:50:45 -0500, Harry Putnam
wrote: mm writes: [...] I've attempted to use a windows XP pro installation disk to try a restore. However I get a blue screen when it tries to start windows. That seems very strange. Unless you mean you're in windows when you run it. No Have you tried setting the CD rom as the first boot device and booting from the XP installation disk? Of course One never knows who is writing in. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . That should always work. When given the first opportunity to enter R, that will be the R-ecovery Console. You don't want that. Take the other option and at the next choice pick R for repair. It takes as long as installing Windows does, but I just did this and got back parts of my system that had been deleted along with viruses, by virus scanners. In this case it does not work. I boot from the installation media, and I tried both of those I have on hand. They both are full windowsXP installation CDs. Do you have more than one CD drive? I don't know how often this matters, but I have a used CD of Partition Magic, and it would start but it wouldnt' start right, and then I noticed the previous owner had written on it that it should go in the drive which is "first on the cable". I switched drives and it worked. OTOH, I have a copy of my retail winXP SP0 installation CD, that I had used on my computer several times to get to the Recorvery Console, and then I tried to run it from a USB CD drive and it would run for 10 or 20 seconds, displaying nothing on the screen, and then the computer would just boot from the C: drive after all. Even though a 6 different AV boot cd's ran fine from the same USB drive. It boots and shows the lines of output previously posted: `Setup is inspecting your machines hardware' Then windows setup comes up and lots of drivers and such are loaded. Then I see: `starting windows' Shortly after that the blue screen Blue screen content: ,---- | A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent | damage to your computer. | | If this is the first time... blah blah... | | Blah blah | | Technical information | | ***Stop: 0x0000007b (0XF78D2524, 0XC0000034, 0X00000000, | 0X00000000) Remember now that this machine will boot into windows XP without any help. Its just that certain things that were installed and working (some for mnths) now are not recognized. You're beyond my poor level of knowledge. The killers are mouse and keyboard do not work, so can't even get logged on. Seems like what is happening is windows has reverted to a previous registry state from some time ago. But that still does not explain why installation media crashes as it does but at the same time windowsXP can boot and run on the same machine. No it doesn't. I think I might like to just reinstall completely but I hate having to diddle around with getting things recognized... especially the delta66 card which has been a problem on 2 machines. Once it is installed properly though, it can't be beat for my needs. Someone suggested using the F6 option on a reinstall which I assume is to allow user to insert special drivers, like for the cdrom drive. I don't understand how it can need special drivers when I am booting from that very drive.. and the windows driver package gets loaded, but that aside maybe someone knows about a driver for that cdrom drive mentioned below. `Lite-on Ihas324 sata cdrom' I looked around on google and on lite-on home pages and have not found such a driver. |
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"mm" wrote in message
... On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 09:50:45 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: mm writes: [...] I've attempted to use a windows XP pro installation disk to try a restore. However I get a blue screen when it tries to start windows. That seems very strange. Unless you mean you're in windows when you run it. No Have you tried setting the CD rom as the first boot device and booting from the XP installation disk? Of course One never knows who is writing in. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . That should always work. When given the first opportunity to enter R, that will be the R-ecovery Console. You don't want that. Take the other option and at the next choice pick R for repair. It takes as long as installing Windows does, but I just did this and got back parts of my system that had been deleted along with viruses, by virus scanners. In this case it does not work. I boot from the installation media, and I tried both of those I have on hand. They both are full windowsXP installation CDs. Do you have more than one CD drive? I don't know how often this matters, but I have a used CD of Partition Magic, and it would start but it wouldnt' start right, and then I noticed the previous owner had written on it that it should go in the drive which is "first on the cable". I switched drives and it worked. That was presumably the MASTER DVD/CD drive. This is not very clear advice as the older type IDE/ATA/PATA (i.e. non SATA) drives can be configured as MASTER/SLAVE in 2 different ways; either by the positioning of the jumpers at the back of the drives, one as MASTER and the other as SLAVE or by positioning the jumpers on BOTH DRIVES on CS or CABLE SELECT and connecting the MASTER to the BLACK end connector and the SLAVE to the GRAY middle connector with the BLUE end of the 40 or the so-called 80 pin flat cable connected to the MOTHERBOARD. There you will note that the so called 80 pin cables actually still have only 40 or newer ones 39 pins. 80 merely refers to the number of wires in the cable. The newer 39 pin type connectors are far better as they can only go in one way: the CORRECT way whereas the older true 40 pin types could be pushed in either way and end up not functioning. Now or course all motherboards have switched over to SATA (Serial ATA)though they still have provision for the old so called 40 pin PATA (Parallel ATA) connectors. And if you find this info useful consider donating to my entertainment account for the birds in my life! ;-) -- choro ***** OTOH, I have a copy of my retail winXP SP0 installation CD, that I had used on my computer several times to get to the Recorvery Console, and then I tried to run it from a USB CD drive and it would run for 10 or 20 seconds, displaying nothing on the screen, and then the computer would just boot from the C: drive after all. Even though a 6 different AV boot cd's ran fine from the same USB drive. It boots and shows the lines of output previously posted: `Setup is inspecting your machines hardware' Then windows setup comes up and lots of drivers and such are loaded. Then I see: `starting windows' Shortly after that the blue screen Blue screen content: ,---- | A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent | damage to your computer. | | If this is the first time... blah blah... | | Blah blah | | Technical information | | ***Stop: 0x0000007b (0XF78D2524, 0XC0000034, 0X00000000, | 0X00000000) Remember now that this machine will boot into windows XP without any help. Its just that certain things that were installed and working (some for mnths) now are not recognized. You're beyond my poor level of knowledge. The killers are mouse and keyboard do not work, so can't even get logged on. Seems like what is happening is windows has reverted to a previous registry state from some time ago. But that still does not explain why installation media crashes as it does but at the same time windowsXP can boot and run on the same machine. No it doesn't. I think I might like to just reinstall completely but I hate having to diddle around with getting things recognized... especially the delta66 card which has been a problem on 2 machines. Once it is installed properly though, it can't be beat for my needs. Someone suggested using the F6 option on a reinstall which I assume is to allow user to insert special drivers, like for the cdrom drive. I don't understand how it can need special drivers when I am booting from that very drive.. and the windows driver package gets loaded, but that aside maybe someone knows about a driver for that cdrom drive mentioned below. `Lite-on Ihas324 sata cdrom' I looked around on google and on lite-on home pages and have not found such a driver. |
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boatman312 writes:
Search for ophcrack-xp-livecd-2.3.1 Should that disc be taking a very long time to load? I see a little dot every so often ... so far about 10 minutes. And can one set NO passwrd with it. I ask because I got around my earlier problem with the sata CDrom by hooking a USB dvdrom which was recognized and so able to run the windows install media... however, after getting to where you enter `R' for the recovery console. I'm asked for the passwrd. I have the password and have used it literally for yrs on all windows machines but it is NOT recognized. There is no doubt at all that it is the correct one yet it is not recognized. I'm guessing it would be wise for the moment to have NO passwd and hoping Ophcrack is capable of setting it that way. |
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On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 18:48:59 +0100, "choro" wrote:
"mm" wrote in message .. . On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 09:50:45 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: mm writes: [...] I've attempted to use a windows XP pro installation disk to try a restore. However I get a blue screen when it tries to start windows. That seems very strange. Unless you mean you're in windows when you run it. No Have you tried setting the CD rom as the first boot device and booting from the XP installation disk? Of course One never knows who is writing in. BTW, in previous example of the XP installation CD not working, that USB CD was connected via USB to a netbook that had no CD drive, so the whole setup only had that one CD. Maybe I should try the original XP install cd, which I keep safe, instead of a copy? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . That should always work. When given the first opportunity to enter R, that will be the R-ecovery Console. You don't want that. Take the other option and at the next choice pick R for repair. It takes as long as installing Windows does, but I just did this and got back parts of my system that had been deleted along with viruses, by virus scanners. In this case it does not work. I boot from the installation media, and I tried both of those I have on hand. They both are full windowsXP installation CDs. Do you have more than one CD drive? I don't know how often this matters, but I have a used CD of Partition Magic, and it would start but it wouldnt' start right, and then I noticed the previous owner had written on it that it should go in the drive which is "first on the cable". I switched drives and it worked. That was presumably the MASTER DVD/CD drive. This is not very clear advice It might have been meant as a note to himself, by the original owner of the CD OTOH, if that were so, maybe he would have said the Creative drive or the E: drive, so maybe it was a note for me. as the older type IDE/ATA/PATA (i.e. non SATA) drives can be configured as MASTER/SLAVE in 2 different ways; either by the positioning of the jumpers at the back of the drives, one as MASTER and the other as SLAVE or by positioning the jumpers on BOTH DRIVES on CS or CABLE SELECT and connecting the MASTER to the BLACK end connector and the SLAVE to the GRAY middle connector with the BLUE end of the 40 or the so-called 80 pin flat cable connected to the MOTHERBOARD. Maybe he thought everyone did it the way he did, or maybe it was a note to himself after all. Nonetheless it was an advantage of buying something used! He included the manual, but I'd read it years ago and didn't read it again. Is PM8 or other things supposed to work only one CD drive, where there are two? I don't read about that very often. There you will note that the so called 80 pin cables actually still have only 40 or newer ones 39 pins. 80 merely refers to the number of wires in the cable. The newer 39 pin type connectors are far better as they can only go in one way: the CORRECT way whereas the older true 40 pin types could be pushed in either way and end up not functioning. Now or course all motherboards have switched over to SATA (Serial ATA)though they still have provision for the old so called 40 pin PATA (Parallel ATA) connectors. And if you find this info useful consider donating to my entertainment account for the birds in my life! ;-) I've considered it. |
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On 10/12/2010 11:50 AM, Harry Putnam wrote:
writes: [...] I've attempted to use a windows XP pro installation disk to try a restore. However I get a blue screen when it tries to start windows. That seems very strange. Unless you mean you're in windows when you run it. No Have you tried setting the CD rom as the first boot device and booting from the XP installation disk? Of course . . . . . . . . . . . . . . That should always work. When given the first opportunity to enter R, that will be the R-ecovery Console. You don't want that. Take the other option and at the next choice pick R for repair. It takes as long as installing Windows does, but I just did this and got back parts of my system that had been deleted along with viruses, by virus scanners. In this case it does not work. I boot from the installation media, and I tried both of those I have on hand. They both are full windowsXP installation CDs. It boots and shows the lines of output previously posted: `Setup is inspecting your machines hardware' Then windows setup comes up and lots of drivers and such are loaded. Then I see: `starting windows' Shortly after that the blue screen Blue screen content: ,---- | A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent | damage to your computer. | | If this is the first time... blah blah... | | Blah blah | | Technical information | | ***Stop: 0x0000007b (0XF78D2524, 0XC0000034, 0X00000000, | 0X00000000) Remember now that this machine will boot into windows XP without any help. Its just that certain things that were installed and working (some for mnths) now are not recognized. The killers are mouse and keyboard do not work, so can't even get logged on. Seems like what is happening is windows has reverted to a previous registry state from some time ago. But that still does not explain why installation media crashes as it does but at the same time windowsXP can boot and run on the same machine. I think I might like to just reinstall completely but I hate having to diddle around with getting things recognized... especially the delta66 card which has been a problem on 2 machines. Once it is installed properly though, it can't be beat for my needs. Someone suggested using the F6 option on a reinstall which I assume is to allow user to insert special drivers, like for the cdrom drive. I don't understand how it can need special drivers when I am booting from that very drive... and the windows driver package gets loaded, but that aside maybe someone knows about a driver for that cdrom drive mentioned below. The Windows installation can be booted because the necessary drivers were installed when Windows was installed. This was done at the factory for you or the restoration CD or the Service Partition includes these drivers so that they can be installed when Windows is installed. If the machine came with a regular Windows CD then whoever installed Windows would have had to use the F6 method to load the drivers. You can also look in the BIOS and see if there is an option to place the SATA controllers in IDE mode, in this configuration the controllers will act as IDE controllers and Windows will install without needing additional drivers. You can also slipstream the SATA drivers to your Windows CD `Lite-on Ihas324 sata cdrom' I looked around on google and on lite-on home pages and have not found such a driver. The drivers that you need are not for the CD-ROM, they are for the SATA controller on the motherboard (or the add-in card), they would be on your motherboard cd with all the other drivers or they would have been shipped with your add-in card. If you don't have the drivers go to the manufacturer's web site and download them. John |
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John John - MVP writes:
I looked around on google and on lite-on home pages and have not found such a driver. The drivers that you need are not for the CD-ROM, they are for the SATA controller on the motherboard (or the add-in card), they would be on your motherboard cd with all the other drivers or they would have been shipped with your add-in card. If you don't have the drivers go to the manufacturer's web site and download them. Thanks, all good information. As it happens I sidestepped once I knew the problem was the sata cdrom. I attached an external USB cdrom (non-sata) and finally did a full install. I did hit another snap prior to that solution though. Booting from the USB cdrom and attempting the `R' option with windows install media led to a request for password. The password has been the same literally for yrs on all of the three windows machines I use. Still the password was rejected, even after several careful typings and checking caps lock. From there I tried the `Trinity' (linux) rescue disk that offers the opportunity to change or remove passwords. I tried removing any password but still hit the same problem when trying the `R' option with windows install media again. Finally gave up any hope of `[R]estoring' the machine and did a painful full install that I am still scrambling with to get it into full video Edit mode, two days later. It requires a goodly number of re-installs of video editing tools and a general bunch of graphics oriented tools to be installed. Not to mention some 80 or so windows updates including SP3. reboot after reboot, and on we go. |
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"mm" wrote in message
... On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 18:48:59 +0100, "choro" wrote: "mm" wrote in message . .. On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 09:50:45 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: mm writes: [...] I've attempted to use a windows XP pro installation disk to try a restore. However I get a blue screen when it tries to start windows. That seems very strange. Unless you mean you're in windows when you run it. No Have you tried setting the CD rom as the first boot device and booting from the XP installation disk? Of course One never knows who is writing in. BTW, in previous example of the XP installation CD not working, that USB CD was connected via USB to a netbook that had no CD drive, so the whole setup only had that one CD. Maybe I should try the original XP install cd, which I keep safe, instead of a copy? If when burning a copy of the Win XP CD you ticked for verification after burning, there should be no need ever to get out the original again as you'd be assured that the copy you made is completely and utterly identical to the original. I always get a copy CD because if I have only the original and something happens to it, if it gets accidentally scratched for example, it would cause problems. But if the copy gets accidentally damaged you can always do a copy from the original. This to my mind and to the mind of any sensible person is NOT an illegal copy. It becomes illegal the moment you give it to somebody else and he or she tries to install in on another computer. But since OS's have to be activated these days, this doesn't obviously apply. I apply the same procedure to all my legally bought and legally owned software CDs. -- choro ***** . . . . . . . . . . . . . . That should always work. When given the first opportunity to enter R, that will be the R-ecovery Console. You don't want that. Take the other option and at the next choice pick R for repair. It takes as long as installing Windows does, but I just did this and got back parts of my system that had been deleted along with viruses, by virus scanners. In this case it does not work. I boot from the installation media, and I tried both of those I have on hand. They both are full windowsXP installation CDs. Do you have more than one CD drive? I don't know how often this matters, but I have a used CD of Partition Magic, and it would start but it wouldnt' start right, and then I noticed the previous owner had written on it that it should go in the drive which is "first on the cable". I switched drives and it worked. That was presumably the MASTER DVD/CD drive. This is not very clear advice It might have been meant as a note to himself, by the original owner of the CD OTOH, if that were so, maybe he would have said the Creative drive or the E: drive, so maybe it was a note for me. as the older type IDE/ATA/PATA (i.e. non SATA) drives can be configured as MASTER/SLAVE in 2 different ways; either by the positioning of the jumpers at the back of the drives, one as MASTER and the other as SLAVE or by positioning the jumpers on BOTH DRIVES on CS or CABLE SELECT and connecting the MASTER to the BLACK end connector and the SLAVE to the GRAY middle connector with the BLUE end of the 40 or the so-called 80 pin flat cable connected to the MOTHERBOARD. Maybe he thought everyone did it the way he did, or maybe it was a note to himself after all. Nonetheless it was an advantage of buying something used! He included the manual, but I'd read it years ago and didn't read it again. Is PM8 or other things supposed to work only one CD drive, where there are two? I don't read about that very often. There you will note that the so called 80 pin cables actually still have only 40 or newer ones 39 pins. 80 merely refers to the number of wires in the cable. The newer 39 pin type connectors are far better as they can only go in one way: the CORRECT way whereas the older true 40 pin types could be pushed in either way and end up not functioning. Now or course all motherboards have switched over to SATA (Serial ATA)though they still have provision for the old so called 40 pin PATA (Parallel ATA) connectors. And if you find this info useful consider donating to my entertainment account for the birds in my life! ;-) I've considered it. |
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