Please help with pc

Browntoa

could try this, assuming both PC's have floppy drives

http://www.allbootdisks.com/download/xphome.html

Download the diskette image you need, and if you need assistance creating a bootable diskette from this image, visit the how-to page.



WindowsXP_Home


WindowsXP_Home_SP1


WindowsXP_Home_SP2
27/2/07369 kb
WindowsXP_Home_SP2_Disk1.exe
27/2/071 mb
WindowsXP_Home_SP2_Disk2.exe
27/2/071 mb
WindowsXP_Home_SP2_Disk3.exe
27/2/071 mb
WindowsXP_Home_SP2_Disk4.exe
27/2/07811 kb
WindowsXP_Home_SP2_Disk5.exe
27/2/07547 kb
WindowsXP_Home_SP2_Disk6.exe

angelcake

She has brought her tower over but none of my cables fit! She has no floppy drive, I do, Is there any way I can power her computer through mine? we don't know what to do now!

Browntoa

you would need to be able to connect the hard disk from your sisters PC into yours as a "slave" , means moving a pin on the back, and then running chkdsk from your c:

you need to open up your pc and see if there is a spare IDE connector on the lead to your hard disk,





if theres no power lead spare then you could use the one off your CD drive to get power

Browntoa

the settings on the hard disk

Browntoa

should be something like this to show you how to change the settings

angelcake

I don't think I could do that! I don't know computers that well!

Browntoa

thought you would say that !!

only a XP CD will do the honours....beg , steal, borrow

angelcake

lol!

Thank you for all your help and patience!

I can't find mine but could ask around, she has the xp key on a sticker on her computer so would she have to use that?

Also would it be someones recovery disc I need?

gaming_guy

angelcake wrote: »

lol!

Thank you for all your help and patience!

I can't find mine but could ask around, she has the xp key on a sticker on her computer so would she have to use that?

Also would it be someones recovery disc I need?

you will need the sticker if you need to reinstall windows.

wouldn't you be able to put the recovery file that Browntoa suggested on a usb key and try that way, after selecting boot from usb or whatever it is in the bios

Browntoa

all we need to disk for is to boot into the recovery console, then hopefully Chkdsk will fix the problem and it will boot under it's own steam

If you get stuck tell me by monday and I'll post you a spare copy of Dell Xp i have (only 1....in case any one else thinks of messaging me for a copy !!)