Dell inspiron 2200 BSD

johnmc · 31 August 2011 at 10:52PM

Dell Inspiron 2200 with a BSD on startup.
0X0000007B (0XBA4EB528 0XC0000034 0X00000000 0X00000000)

I have tried to change the boot order to load the XP installation disk and the darned password is set. Owner has no knowledge / documentation.

I have a caddy and have loaded the HD on there. I can see the files so it's not completely fried and it runs free of virus under Kaspersky. Still get BSD when run as main drive.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Hammyman · 31 August 2011 at 11:21PM

Press f12 on startup and it should bring up a boot menu where you can select the DVD drive.

Azrael_1701 · 31 August 2011 at 11:35PM

johnmc wrote: »

Dell Inspiron 2200 with a BSD on startup.
0X0000007B (0XBA4EB528 0XC0000034 0X00000000 0X00000000)

I have tried to change the boot order to load the XP installation disk and the darned password is set. Owner has no knowledge / documentation.

I have a caddy and have loaded the HD on there. I can see the files so it's not completely fried and it runs free of virus under Kaspersky. Still get BSD when run as main drive.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Caddy it, plug it into another machine, then run the boot disk from there?

johnmc · 1 September 2011 at 4:52PM

hammyman wrote:

Press f12 on startup and it should bring up a boot menu where you can select the DVD drive.

It won't allow a change of boot order without the password.

Azreal_1701 wrote:

Caddy it, plug it into another machine, then run the boot disk from there?

I've tried Ultimate Boot Disk and I can't get to the drive in DOS (it's on USB).

Is there any way of doing a boot disk repair on a drive on a USB caddy?

I don't want to swap out my HD from my own lappy if I can help it.

Yanking the CMOS battery and main battery hasn't cleared the BIOS password (well, it was worth a try!) otherwise I could change the boot order and run a CD.