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Feb 27, 2007 - 07:06 PM
Well, I guess what your friend meant is you have to rebuild it. Reformatting just wipes everything from your hard drive and formats the hard drive. This wouldn't help you at all, would it?
I don't know what operatiing system we are talking about but I assume some windows. You will need a device from which you can start your laptop. This can either be a CD rom or a Diskette Drive. I would assume a USB drive doesn't work. USB needs drivers installed, which happens after you start the operating system!
And please allow me one question: How do you want to install the operating system onto your laptop? It comes as CDs or DVDs!
If you'd ask me, a laptop without a CD drive is pretty much useless! If you say "Now i thought it would be fun to have one "then let me tell you, having a laptop without CD rom Drive isn't much fun at all!
You could try and fix the problem you have. Just tell us (or any other expert) what Laptop, what operating system and what the problem is. Error messages? Doesn't boot at all? etc.
Hope this helps a bit!
Cheers
Peter
I don't know what operatiing system we are talking about but I assume some windows. You will need a device from which you can start your laptop. This can either be a CD rom or a Diskette Drive. I would assume a USB drive doesn't work. USB needs drivers installed, which happens after you start the operating system!
And please allow me one question: How do you want to install the operating system onto your laptop? It comes as CDs or DVDs!
If you'd ask me, a laptop without a CD drive is pretty much useless! If you say "Now i thought it would be fun to have one "then let me tell you, having a laptop without CD rom Drive isn't much fun at all!
You could try and fix the problem you have. Just tell us (or any other expert) what Laptop, what operating system and what the problem is. Error messages? Doesn't boot at all? etc.
Hope this helps a bit!
Cheers
Peter
Feb 27, 2007 - 08:03 PM
thanks,
when i first got the laptop it had windows installed on it already. Also the CD drive worked, but for some weird reason it stopped working.
when i start it it goes to the loading windo xp screen then it finishes and a dark blue screen pops up and the computer restarts. i dont know if that helps.
i have tried starting it in safe mode etc. but nothing works.
when i first got the laptop it had windows installed on it already. Also the CD drive worked, but for some weird reason it stopped working.
when i start it it goes to the loading windo xp screen then it finishes and a dark blue screen pops up and the computer restarts. i dont know if that helps.
i have tried starting it in safe mode etc. but nothing works.
Feb 27, 2007 - 08:30 PM
for how long have you had your laptop?
If the CD-drive stops working this is something that should be repaired, otherwise as Peter said, it's going to be a lot less fun having the laptop.
Repairing it might be covered by the vendor if you do it within the two first years.
You still didn't mention which laptop is it? That would also be helpful for us to give you more specific advice...
If the CD-drive stops working this is something that should be repaired, otherwise as Peter said, it's going to be a lot less fun having the laptop.
Repairing it might be covered by the vendor if you do it within the two first years.
You still didn't mention which laptop is it? That would also be helpful for us to give you more specific advice...
Feb 28, 2007 - 01:05 AM
i have had the laptop about a year i dont know anything about it b4 that though
i got the laptop off ebay so it has no insurance.
the laptop is an Acer travelmate 345te.
i think it might just be best to get the cd drive fixed and just fully restore it.
i got the laptop off ebay so it has no insurance.
the laptop is an Acer travelmate 345te.
i think it might just be best to get the cd drive fixed and just fully restore it.
Feb 28, 2007 - 10:02 PM
Just a tiny addition: I believe that some laptops actually do offer boot from USB (drivers integrated on motherboard). I couldn't find much info on the mentioned model though.
Oct 02, 2007 - 07:58 AM
The behavior described was what is known as the blue screen of death (BSOD). at boot time it's probably seen with a message IRQ not less or equal. anyway the easiest fix for this is run chkdsk /f. the real problem is when you can't boot to save mode to run this. then you have to take your windows XP cd and boot from that (I personally prefer PE disks) anyway, boot to the recovery console and run chkdsk /p and wait. if you receive more than 100 errors, you most likely have a failing hard drive.
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