shiftlocked
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Hi all,
Wonder if someone can help me out. Ive spent hours on this and im just about to give up the ghost and scream at a bit of machinery.
Ive a pc here that Ive been asked to ahve a look at. Its a packard bell (yes.... i know I should have known better) and the hard drive failed and corrupted some blocks. Verified this by doing a chkdisk and it couldnt repair it.
So..... I ghosted the drive to another drive to keep all the data on there. Boot with it and crashes at the same point when loading an AGP driver. Thats good in my book as the backup worked and the new disk is fine.
My idea was to plop in a XP home cd and select the repair option from the CD. I dont have XP here BUT the machine is legit and has the licence sticker and the receipt etc etc etc.
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I get a mate to drop round is Windows XP home edition UPGRADE cd. Started it of with that but it didnt take the CD key that is on the side of the machine.
I get another mate to drop round his GOLD edition of xp home. I believe this to be XP with no service packs. This only gives me the options to wipe and start again. No good for me in this case.
I've just created a XP home SP2 slipstream cd that gave me the option to upgrade. Im waiting for the bit to enter the key which I have a feeling will fail.
What are my other options to do a repair via install.?
Im going to try a different AGP card in there to see if it uses a diff driver to the one on the system
SFC doesnt exist in the recovery console else that would be one way to go.
Can anyone advise what versions of XP HOME allow repairs when installing?
TIA
Wonder if someone can help me out. Ive spent hours on this and im just about to give up the ghost and scream at a bit of machinery.
Ive a pc here that Ive been asked to ahve a look at. Its a packard bell (yes.... i know I should have known better) and the hard drive failed and corrupted some blocks. Verified this by doing a chkdisk and it couldnt repair it.
So..... I ghosted the drive to another drive to keep all the data on there. Boot with it and crashes at the same point when loading an AGP driver. Thats good in my book as the backup worked and the new disk is fine.
My idea was to plop in a XP home cd and select the repair option from the CD. I dont have XP here BUT the machine is legit and has the licence sticker and the receipt etc etc etc.
sad.gif
I get a mate to drop round is Windows XP home edition UPGRADE cd. Started it of with that but it didnt take the CD key that is on the side of the machine.
I get another mate to drop round his GOLD edition of xp home. I believe this to be XP with no service packs. This only gives me the options to wipe and start again. No good for me in this case.
I've just created a XP home SP2 slipstream cd that gave me the option to upgrade. Im waiting for the bit to enter the key which I have a feeling will fail.
What are my other options to do a repair via install.?
Im going to try a different AGP card in there to see if it uses a diff driver to the one on the system
SFC doesnt exist in the recovery console else that would be one way to go.
Can anyone advise what versions of XP HOME allow repairs when installing?
TIA
