help needed! can this laptop be sorted?

westiea · 15 October 2008 at 11:04AM

Ok seems there's some confusion here! If you can get into the bios the ERD should work. Anyway its free and uve got nothin to lose apart from a blank cd!
- Click on above link
- Scoll down to where black download/password is spinning and click on either of the blue downloads (they are mirror sites)
-It will take u to another page. U will need to enter whatever letters are displayed ('Please enter *** here')
-u will then have to wait 45 seconds (as ur are gettinh this free) b4 u can click on 'download'
- open up and u will see set of instructions
If u have problems let me know and i will send u a copy

westiea · 15 October 2008 at 11:21AM

by the way the reason some morons have asked for the password is cos when it opens in winrar (its a rar file so u will need it - free to download google it) it asks for 1 but at the side it states - https://www.fullandfree.info- is the rar password duh!

gill07 · 15 October 2008 at 3:57PM

ok thank you i will give it a go and let you know

gill07 · 15 October 2008 at 4:07PM

ok i followed the link for erd commander. the first download i clicked opened a page that said we are closed and had 3 porno pics underneath it so i clicked on other download option and it opened a page showing mega uploader. there was no download option just a demo and price of 79.99

DatabaseError · 15 October 2008 at 4:18PM

fullnfree looks like a dodgy site, to me. I wouldn't trust anything from there, and would question its legality.

gill07 · 15 October 2008 at 4:20PM

thank you i was thinking the same. dont think i am ever goin to sort this laptop

DatabaseError · 15 October 2008 at 4:25PM

it is always possible that the xp copy isn't bootable

gill07 · 15 October 2008 at 4:40PM

ok so what is the next step to try and get it to boot from cd?
loaner - what is the link you have sent me
thank you for your help

superstylin · 15 October 2008 at 5:10PM

apologies if this is back tracking and of no use whatsoever, but i remember trying to set boot sequence on mine and making an stoopid mistake, but it drove me nuts. basically i was getting to the sequence change bit and highlighting cd and pressing enter, what i actually needed to do was use the 'page down' and 'up' keys to move the entries in order of sequence then save and exit

patman99 · 15 October 2008 at 8:55PM

If the Win XP cd is a copy, then it could be an incompatability with the cd media & the cdrom drive. It has been known for a CD drive not to like a particular make/colour of cd.