laptop wont boot

Conorrr

lol i'm confused i thought the guy asking the question was here lol

and yes it is legal and he may already have it on a separate partition

bookduck

Conorrr wrote: »

problem is he needs to burn a cd or he needs someone to burn a cd for him and you can't keep running puppy linux without the CD in the drive

Well since his brothers laptop is not working, mitchb could burn him one.

To be fair, I've never tried running puppy without leaving the cd in, but was under the impression if there was enough memory (256M) then it keeps all of puppy in ram?

Conorrr

bookduck wrote: »

Well since his brothers laptop is not working, mitchb could burn him one.

To be fair, I've never tried running puppy without leaving the cd in, but was under the impression if there was enough memory (256M) then it keeps all of puppy in ram?

i have run it previously amongst other versions of linux on CD it doesn't load EVERYTHING into the ram and if you try to open the CD drive it just doesn't open.

... i wonder what happens if you open it using the pin method

raptorman

Conorrr wrote: »

i have run it previously amongst other versions of linux on CD it doesn't load EVERYTHING into the ram and if you try to open the CD drive it just doesn't open.

... i wonder what happens if you open it using the pin method

Strange, I have run Puppy Linux on a PC with 192MB Ram
and it worked fine completeley in Ram. I also had no problem
removing the disc.

Conorrr

raptorman wrote: »

Strange, I have run Puppy Linux on a PC with 192MB Ram
and it worked fine completeley in Ram. I also had no problem
removing the disc.

i don't think i had the offical edition i had some modded one with open office and what not

bookduck

Thinking back Conorrr is correct that the old version 3 would not let me eject the disk either. Last week burnt version 4 and have just found that it will let me eject the cd and with the disk ejected seamonkey still runs.

Conorrr

bookduck wrote: »

Thinking back Conorrr is correct that the old version 3 would not let me eject the disk either. Last week burnt version 4 and have just found that it will let me eject the cd and with the disk ejected seamonkey still runs.

anyway back to the matter...

mitchb

Thanks for all the replies.

The operating system is XP

I have managed to fix the issue by using my own XP disk to boot the pc and then runing a chk disk utility, it reported several errors and fixed them and its now running fine. Although i dont know what happened to cause the issue in the first place?

atkinsonkieron

press f10 or f11 that will format to factory settings if you press quick format