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Author Topic: XP start-up issues... Darryl Spicer Film God Posts: 3250 From: Lexington, KY, USA Registered: Dec 2000 posted 07-10-2003 10:52 AM                    you should be able to put the restore discs that came with the computer in it's cdrom drive and start the computer. it will wipe clean the drive and reinstall back to factory instalation.  |  IP: Logged Christopher Duvall Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 500 From: Denver, CO Registered: Dec 1999 posted 07-11-2003 06:36 AM                     If you have the Windows XP Installation disc you should be able to this quite easily. Much as you might not want to do this, boot the machine with a DOS boot disc . Make sure you have FDISK and FORMAT on it as well. AFter booting up, chack you partitions and then format the hard drive(s). After that, insert the XP CD in the drive and reboot. It should start the installion process. After it is installed you just have to re-install you software. It is easy to do but lengthy and sometimes tedious. You will happier afterwards. It is actually pretty good to do this from time to time because is will allow you to be rid of alot of crap that builds up on your drive even if you use utilities to keep that from happening. Good Luck...  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 07-11-2003 06:47 AM                        I have another brilliant idea: Windows XP has a system restoration program. When the system has (sort of) booted, press ctrl-alt-del to bring up the task manager. Then select "New Task" (or whatever it is called in the English version) on the bottom right corner on the first page. Look for this file: rstrui.exe in this directory: %SystemRoot%\System32\restore\rstrui.exe Where %SystemRoot% means the directory in which Windows is installed, for example: C:\Windows\System32\restore\rstrui.exe If it works, you can select one of the system restore points from before the problems started.  |  IP: Logged Nate Lehrke Master Film Handler Posts: 396 From: Denver, CO Registered: Oct 2002 posted 07-11-2003 01:05 PM                     Okay, I did what Michael Schaffer suggested with the C:\Windows\System32\restore\rstrui.exe and IT WORKED! Thanks all for the help!  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 07-11-2003 04:43 PM                        Just for the record Michael's original post read: "Nate. It is permanently broken. You suck." Of course being a moderator I edited his post to say what it says now and fixing Nate's problem in the process! I kick ass! Yay me! Everyone owes me $$$.  |  IP: Logged Nate Lehrke Master Film Handler Posts: 396 From: Denver, CO Registered: Oct 2002 posted 07-12-2003 12:01 AM                     Joe, you are just a kick ass guy! All my thanks to you!  |  IP: Logged Nate Lehrke Master Film Handler Posts: 396 From: Denver, CO Registered: Oct 2002 posted 11-08-2003 03:15 AM                     Here is the next chapter of this POS Dell Laptop with XP Home Edition. ANY HELP WOULD BE APPRECIATED I know that I had a virus. I tryed to re-install Windows XP. It didn't work. (Windows doesnt load at all, I get the start-up screen, than it just goes black) I have the Re-Installation Disk in the CDROM. I has re-booted the PC. Now I am a blue screena and it wants to know where to put the Windows XP. I have to choose from: -: Partition 1 [FAT] 31 MB < 29 free> C:Partition 2 [NTFS] 19038 MB < 12102 MB> Unpartitioned Space Now I assume that I want to choose C but it's telling me that Windows XP is already installed on that drive and ot doesnt reccomend installing on the drive. What can/should I do???  |  IP: Logged Darryl Spicer Film God Posts: 3250 From: Lexington, KY, USA Registered: Dec 2000 posted 11-08-2003 12:16 PM                    If you are not sure I would take it to someone who does this on a normal basis. If you want to take risks you can try re- formating the drive and then reinstalling the program. I can't guarentee that this is the right solution since I have never tried it. But, I would say that in order for you to re-install the windows XP software you will have to remove the existing one. Pluse by doing this you will also eliminate any possable remaining virus information on your drives.  |  IP: Logged Ken McFall Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 615 From: Haringey, London. Registered: Apr 2001 posted 11-08-2003 12:36 PM                      |  IP: Logged Matthew Nock Film Handler Posts: 82 From: Bairnsdale, Victoria, Australia Registered: Jan 2003 posted 11-08-2003 03:51 PM                     Nate, If you have no data on the drive that is important, then at the screen where you can select what partition to install to, you will have an option to Delete a partition... Delete Partition C... That will leave you will the small partition, and the rest as unpartitioned. Then tell the XP installer you want to create a partition and use all of the available unparttioned space. This will giveyou a completely fresh drive to install XP to. **** If you do this, you will loose ALL data, programs, emails, graphics etc **** But on a side note, you will get a completely fresh install of XP, with no nasties! Cheers, M@  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 11-10-2003 01:42 AM                        Actually what I did with my laptop hard drive was to partition it into C: (10gb) and D: (30gb), both NTFS. C: holds the system and D: all application data (i.e. 'My Documents' is mapped to drive D:). By doing this and splitting the page file across the two volumes I've found that fragmentation is much less of a problem. And if, for whatever reason, you need to completely 'nuke' your system drive and reinstall Windows, it is possible to do so without losing your data (though I'd still be inclined to make sure it's backed up first). quote: Like most large PC companies, Dell doesn't supply plain vanilla Windows installation disks but rather has their own specialized system restoration discs with the OS included. I don't really mind that since it makes a complete format c: and clean software reinstall go a lot faster. I don't like doing that because you also put back all the logos, useless advertising crap and unwanted applications which come with the manufacturer's install disc: I've had this both with my old laptop (a Dell) and the new one I got last month (an HP/Compaq). The new one came with XP Home, so I bought a 'plain vanilla' XP Pro OEM CD and sticky label, downloaded all the hardware drivers, nuked the hard disc and started from scratch. True, the installation did take a bit longer than if I'd done it the way the manufacturer wants me to, but the advantages are that (i) you are guaranteed to be installing the most up-to-date drivers, and (ii) that you only install what you want to install rather than a package which someone else has put together and which may contain a lot of stuff you don't want.  |  IP: Logged Manny Knowles "What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???" Posts: 4247 From: Bloomington, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 11-10-2003 07:12 AM                     Ugh! PC's should be banned. As some of you already know, I had to buy a friggin' PC laptop just for work stuff. Windows XP on a Compaq Pressario. Within a week I had to reinstall all of the software. Good thing I didn't have any time to accumulate valuable data. Buy a Mac.  |  IP: Logged Adam Martin I'm not even gonna point out the irony. Posts: 3686 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 11-10-2003 01:50 PM                     quote: Compaq Pressario There's your problem right there.  |  IP: Logged John Westlund Expert Film Handler Posts: 204 From: Burney, CA, USA Registered: Jun 2001 posted 11-10-2003 02:50 PM                     I have never worked with a Compaq that worked right. I bought one and took it back after a couple weeks of problems with it. They had the worst tech support I had ever seen but this was several years ago so maybe things are better now. I still will never own another compaq PC.  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 11-10-2003 03:29 PM                        I just contacted Compaq support because the Pocket PC that came with my IE-33 had Outlook 2000 with it, but the CD key didn`t work. I called support even though I expected nothing to come from it. But - within 5 minutes and after pushing only a few buttons to navigate myself through the automated service menu, I actually spoke to an actual person who actually knew what was going on and issued me another CD key after checking the registration data of the Pocket PC. Manny - why didn`t you stick to your Powerbook? As you hopefully know, you can run all your cinema programs on Virtual PC. BTW, I have a desktop computer and a notebook with XP, and the only problem I ever had was that I had to run system restore once because IE was somehow messed up. I don`t know what you all do to your PCs to make them crash all the time.  |  IP: Logged

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