PC Help

cloudy-day

Hi, my 8 years old xp PC has died. It only gets as far as ' boot from disk'.

I have the startup disk but that has 2 options:
1 RESTORE WINDOWS XP
2 BOOT TO VOMMAND PROMPT FROM CD-ROM

I've tried option 2 which gives me:
A:\>

How do I change that to c: - I've tried cd, cddir in various combinations but it stays on a:

I want to do this as I have a restore point command to run from c. I really don't want to do option 1 as tht says that everything on c will be deleted.

Please help

mathsmaster

I think you just type c:

notbritishgas

Type c: and hit enter. (I hope)

closed

If the hard disk hasn't failed, you may be able to get at your data using this, then factory restore.

http://www.paragon-software.com/home/rk-express/download_old.html

cloudy-day

Nope.

First thing I did. Error message is 'Invalid drive spesification',

cloudy-day

closed wrote: »

If the hard disk hasn't failed, you may be able to get at your data using this, then factory restore.

http://www.paragon-software.com/home/rk-express/download_old.html

Thanks but wouldn't it be easier just to put in a restore point?

closed

assuming a restore point works, if you can't find the c drive, nothing may work - is the disk visible in the bios, has the machine been moved?

cloudy-day

I'm not sure that it can't find c its just not letting me change to it.

Any suggestions please - I really don't want to start over again.

closed

check bios, check connections, see if disk is spinning.

What's the first message when the machine is switched on - of the bios battery has died, the bios could have lost it's settings - usually evident by the time being wrong - batteries available from poundshops

booler

This is the old DOS operating system syntax to do a change drive.
http://www.computerhope.com/cdhlp.htm

I think at the A:\> prompt you should enter CD /D C:\

cloudy-day

closed wrote: »

check bios, check connections, see if disk is spinning.

What's the first message when the machine is switched on - of the bios battery has died, the bios could have lost it's settings - usually evident by the time being wrong - batteries available from poundshops

Sorry I have no clue why batteries are involved??