Help needed - trying to create a recovery disc

Dollardog

None of those seem to do anything

Dollardog

No, not getting the Bios screen either.

It comes up with COMPAQ, and says to press F10 to change the settings, then just goes to a flashing cursor in the top left hand corner.

Dollardog

Kept trying lots of times, but can't seem to get the BIOS screen to come up.

Donnie

I'll upload a disc for you.

closed

Apart from sticking it into a usb caddy, and seeing if there is a recovery partition on there (ie not wiped fully), the easiest way would be to borrow a xp home CD.

Dollardog

That's very good of you, thanks.
A Windows disc or a recovery disc?

Why can't I get a Bios screen up though?

Dollardog

closed wrote: »

Apart from sticking it into a usb caddy, and seeing if there is a recovery partition on there (ie not wiped fully), the easiest way would be to borrow a xp home CD.

When you say 'sticking it into a usd caddy,' what do you mean? - take the hard drive out?

If I connected it to my Pc either via Bluetooth or USB cable, would my PC see it as another drive? and would I be able to look at it from my PC?

It says its got Bluetooth, although I suspect the software for that has also been wiped, don't know if it is wi-fi enabled, that would be my next question if it isn't, as I need it to be.
I do have a Bluetooth Dongle, although have never used it

closed

Yes, it's unlikely to work, Donnie's upload is your best bet, if it's an iso, you need to burn it as a disc image (imgburn can do this)

Dollardog

I am at the moment backing up my documents and settings, onto my back up drive , (PC), so that id working, obviously it didn't like doing the whole disc and the recovery disc.

Donnie

It's in your private message box, complete with instructions.