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Windows 2000: recover from bad install!
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sumodog
Posts: 51 Forumite
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Made a real muppet mistake!!!
Bought Toshiba Satellite laptop from work on the condition that I 'flattened' the hard drive. Advised to use the Toshiba recovery disc that came with the laptop originally to do this a nd leave a clean Win 2000 install.
Unfortunatly, I mixed the disc up with the ones that came with my new laptop - running WinXP Pro. This successfully flattened said laptop but then failed to properly install XP - the lappy has 128mb ram and a 10g HD. No way will it run XP!!. So when I now boot up, it starts to run XP then fails. The failure screen offers the choice of retrying or starting in safe mode or last good configuration.
None of these do anyting other than keep looping me round to the above boot cycle.
Any ideas?
Cheers
Bought Toshiba Satellite laptop from work on the condition that I 'flattened' the hard drive. Advised to use the Toshiba recovery disc that came with the laptop originally to do this a nd leave a clean Win 2000 install.
Unfortunatly, I mixed the disc up with the ones that came with my new laptop - running WinXP Pro. This successfully flattened said laptop but then failed to properly install XP - the lappy has 128mb ram and a 10g HD. No way will it run XP!!. So when I now boot up, it starts to run XP then fails. The failure screen offers the choice of retrying or starting in safe mode or last good configuration.
None of these do anyting other than keep looping me round to the above boot cycle.
Any ideas?
Cheers
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Why don't you repeat the procedure, this time with the correct disc?0
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Couldn't get it to boot from the cd drive...
Any ideas?Uh?0 -
go into the bios ( press f1 or f8 or del or enter one of them ? at start up) and set it to boot from cd 1st0
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Also sometimes you can use F12 to temporary change the boot order.0
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