Laptop help please!

busenbust

Applies to XP and Vista and Windows 7 ^^^

Former_MSE_Forum_Manager

Donnie and busenbust.

Please stop this childishness and reporting each other's posts - we really don't have the time or resource to deal with something so unnecessary. If you don't like the advice each other gives to posters, plus use the "ignore" function to block the other posters comments.

busenbust

MSE_Forum_Manager wrote: »

Donnie and busenbust.

Please stop this childishness and reporting each other's posts - we really don't have the time or resource to deal with something so unnecessary. If you don't like the advice each other gives to posters, plus use the "ignore" function to block the other posters comments.

Thanks MSE FM. Hopefully, this will put an end to this . All I have done on this forum is try to help people -- see a scan of my posts. Thank You.

jandrewcrook

Hi, nothing happens when i press F4, i can't find a recovery partition (looked on c and d drive). there is a samsung recovery solution icon on desktop but i do not have the authority to use it!!!!
It is running xp but it doesn't have a cd/dvd drive and no disc.
if anyone else ever buys a second hand computer please please check that you are an administrator.......this is doing my head in.

Thanks to all who have replied trying to help

macman

Doesn't have a CD drive!? How old is this machine-which model? All laptops built in the last ten years or so have an optical drive.
Or did you mean a netbook, not a notebook?

Donnie

jandrewcrook wrote: »

Hi, nothing happens when i press F4, i can't find a recovery partition (looked on c and d drive). there is a samsung recovery solution icon on desktop but i do not have the authority to use it!!!!
It is running xp but it doesn't have a cd/dvd drive and no disc.
if anyone else ever buys a second hand computer please please check that you are an administrator.......this is doing my head in.

Thanks to all who have replied trying to help

Sign in as Administrator as per post #2.

jandrewcrook

Hi its a little one Samsung N120 so no room for cd/dvd drive.
I tried signing in as an administrator but it didn't work
thanks again

busenbust

jandrewcrook wrote: »

Hi its a little one Samsung N120 so no room for cd/dvd drive.
I tried signing in as an administrator but it didn't work
thanks again

Try the recovery options; the first option will do.

macman

jandrewcrook wrote: »

Hi its a little one Samsung N120 so no room for cd/dvd drive.
I tried signing in as an administrator but it didn't work
thanks again

OK. At the risk of being pedantic, what you have purchased is a netbook (low powered small laptop with no optical drive). A notebook is just another word for a standard laptop. Hope you can get it sorted.

Donnie

macman wrote: »

OK. At the risk of being pedantic, what you have purchased is a netbook (low powered small laptop with no optical drive). A notebook is just another word for a standard laptop. Hope you can get it sorted.

To be fair to the OP, they did state the model number in post #4.