Repairing the Lap Top in Earley Reading Berkshire England UK Planet Earth, orbiting the Sun, but which sun, in which galacy, and in which universe, and where is the universe?. |
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| What to do when you get given a Dell Lap Top computer by a teacher that happens to be a neighbour. And you are told please get it working because it is knackered and will not start. Of course you want to be help full and of course you want to help you neighbour. Well if you are a Computer Repair Business you would get given broken Lap Top wouldn't you..... I mean that would be normal?! right...... | ||||
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I turned on the Dell Lap Top and plugged in the mains cable and sipped my cup of hot Nescafe coffee and blinked... The lap top werred, and a blinking cursor appeared and then a message no bootable device. and then nothing. but it does also say that a file is either missing or corrupt. The file that was missing was something to do with boot up and the ntfs file system. But knowing what it is and what was wrong wasn't going to help. More hot coffee, and a scratch of the head. A rummage in the Lap Top Bag and I find a bunch of CD Roms, quite a dusty collection actually!!. But there was a Purple Window XP Professional installation CD including service pack 1a or something, but for the Dell Lap Top, ahhar I thought. The Lap Top was clearly unable to boot at all, but the message also said press F2 to enter setup... That of course is the computer bias. I also had a copy of Partition Magic Version 8. and a good few years experience of fixing just about every type of computer ever devised from the ZX80 onwards. The answer could be to the problem is to do a repair install of Windows XP Professional, but this is on the face of it little confusing... at his point you are are the bottom of a normal web page,,,, but read on... I turned the machine off after placing the windows XP Professional cd into the cd rom drive. Then I turned the computer on and pressed F2 to enter Setup. Then I entered the initial page of the bias, you need the page that shows the boot up device order. You should make sure that he CD Rom is the first boot device, then save and exit the bios and then restart the Lap Top. The Computer will ask press any key to boot from the CD Rom, you should do this. and hence boot from the CD Rom. Once it do boot you can choose to press R to do a Repair install. or choose to install Windows XP of choose to do nothing (The most popular choice for human beings). Bizarrely you should not choose to do a repair install or choose to do nothing, but you should choose to install XP, but at the next screen you have a choice to install XP or to repair the existing XP. clearly this is bloody bonkers. But choosing to repair the existing XP Operating system is the most likely one to work,... It takes while, perhaps about 35 min's but in the end you end up perhaps with a computer that will boot and start XP and you also end up with the end users files and settings are preserved.. Fab ahhhh |
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