Severe Laptop Issues

**JDNSW** · 7th December 2006, 05:40 AM

Originally Posted by ladas

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At least you are a little more relaxed and less likely to make a mistake or disembowel small children who switch bloody things off - Dave you met Tim my son - he nearly didn't make it to 3 for just the same problem - last five mins into what was then a Win 95 install and he presses that bloody button

When my older grand daughter became mobile my tower moved from the floor to the back of my desk against the wall - fortunately the incident that prompted that was not as traumatic - just halfway through typing a letter!

John

**Ace** · 7th December 2006, 07:43 AM

No worries thanks guys, we rang compaq and we are trying to get them to send out a recovery CD, they put the recovery info on the partition cause they dont have to pay to have a DC put in with the computer that way, friggin tight arses.

I will rephrase the not being able to be networked thing. It may be able to be networked but i cant be connected to the school network with Home, that is why Pro is needed.

Dad is away today but i will pass on the info, we reckon we can sort it if we can delete the partitions and then start from scratch. Matt

**Ace** · 13th December 2006, 11:32 AM

The putie is fixed thanks for your help guys. Just need to download the drivers. Matt

**Blknight.aus** · 13th December 2006, 12:36 PM

You can download and install the appropriate network stuff online and then you'll be able to talk to any network you like..

I think you might also get them with SP2

**Ace** · 15th December 2006, 08:43 AM

Originally Posted by Blknight.aus

You can download and install the appropriate network stuff online and then you'll be able to talk to any network you like..

I think you might also get them with SP2

No worries, thanks. Matt

**shorty943** · 18th December 2006, 12:30 PM

Firstly, you can network with XP Home, you just don't get the corporate domain stuff with Home. I know, because I have it setup on my home LAN.

Second, the repair partition, which should have been hidden, has a disk set build and burn function, although as you seem to want Pro, this is a moot point.

Third, fry every partition and then make one, set it to active and install.

Fourth, the XP MBR repair is "fixmbr"

Hope this can help.

regards shorty943.

Part-time tech, into inter-system research for an IT firm. That is. Just how many differing systems and machines can I cobble together and get playing nice with each other.

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