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I do have my XP Disc.
That's why this is taking long. If you had your XP disc? we could replace any Dll's or drivers you may have lost. If you still have unwanted freeze ups after that? Then I know what steps to take.
If you take the cover off your tower, or if you know the model of your PC?
I need that number off the motherboard so I can see if I have the right RAM for your PC
see if you see a # that says PC-100 or PC-2700 etc........
I do have my XP Disc.
So far I found two 250MB sticks. one is a 2400 and the other is a 2700 I also have a 256MB in a PC I use only for playing games, It's a PC-133 if you need it.
I will want a pack of Blank DVDs if possible
Then put the cd in and re-boot
click boot from cd when you see the promt
then you will see a window that reads press R
Alright, let me give it a shot. I just click on that one? What do I do after that? Just follow what it says or...
Do you need the codes for the ErrorKiller and RegistrySmart? or did you not run them?
I have to go in to work at 6. So If we can hault this process right now, that would be great. lol.
I am running Service Pack 2, so do I have to update?
And no I don't need those codes for those two programs. I didn't bother installing them.
Then let's wait till you get back, the XP recovery could take 20 minutes. I had no idea you had a job, In that case why not just get one of these?
I do have something like that. Last year I got a barebone kit and everything. I had to put it together. My friend helped me put it together. Do I have to update my ? lol. No right, because I have service pack 2 or what ever.
So I insterted the cd into computer and restarted, but for some reason I can't boot off it. What do I need to do for it to recognize it?
I tired pressing F9, but I got this at the bottom...
"please install express recovery from gigabyte cd le" Um yah. I think I have a gigabyte cd on it that came with the MB? I put it in and I couldn't find anything that had to do with express recovery....
How else do i boot from the cd?
You have to change your CD/DVD drive to your primary bootable drive in your bios. Press either delete or f1 depending on your MB to get to the bios at startup.
Sorry for the late reply. I made a house call last night and this dude was all jacked up. I had to bring his PC to my place and when I got on line RoadRunner sent me a warning page to call them. His PC was being used to spread some trojan e mails.
RoadRunner only gives you so many warnings then they cut off your www access for a few hours.
Just tell them you work on PC's from your home and you will get some slack.I even know the the Tech boss's name we have chatted many times. He gives me 25.00 bucks off each month since I told so many DSL users to change to cable. It's supposed to be 50,00 dollars off your bill each time, but you have to go to thier website and put the customers name in first. So I told some asshat (trust me he was a real anal dude) on the phone one day how am I going to know when I go to someone's house if they want RoadRunner? I told him If I knew that? That means I would know the funture and I would be in Vegas making sports bets. He said as soon as they want to change just use thier PC to go to the website. I told them how can I use thier PC if they don't have www access yet? Many folks who call me are getting on line for the fist time. I do alot of old folks around the medical center area. You don't make much money but you go home with a load of pills
Anyway I told them I will stop telling folks to change from DSL to Time Warner in the future , it's to much trouble. and that's when I met Richard. He says they give the Bounus to best Buyworkers but only Austin let's private contractors get the Bonus for hooking folks up.
For some reason San Antonio does not have that luxury. Anyway short story long, this dude has worm Blaster and a few other turds I picked up using his HD as my slave drive. His PC has been in storage for a few years. He still has Rotten.com links.
I would use the phone from now on to further fix your PC ,It's faster and I hate the fact I am spaming this forum as it is, Trust me I can go w/o another warning from Manny, I may want to go to another GTG some day.
mouse go to bed let me take over from here.................
Thanks for you help Mouse, but Steve is helping me now.
So am I ready to try and repair it now? Or is there anything else I have to do. I have had trouble booting from the cd, but I haven't tried Nbadan idea, by pressing f1 or delete.
I went ahead and got the cd to boot. I pressed R when it was time, then I got this message..
Which windows installation would you like to log onto
1 C:\Windows
(to cancel press enter)
So I guess I had to press 1. The first time I ran this I didn't press anything and my computer froze I guess and my tower was making a loud constant beep noise. So I tried this again, pressing 1 this time and it made the same noise, then I tried it again and I didn't press anything and it froze I think.
What is the computer suppose to do after I press 1? Am I suppose to press 1?
Steve is in the Kings forum I will go get him...............
Thanks larry say hi to Mr Roper for me. Ok spurs 2108 first you need to Disable Norton.
Virus protection software sometimes interferes with Setup,do that now.
To run the Recovery Console from the Windows XP startup disks or the Windows XP CD-ROM, follow these steps:
1. Insert the Windows XP startup disk into the floppy disk drive, or insert the Windows XP CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive, and then restart the computer.
Click to select any options that are required to start the computer from the CD-ROM drive if you are prompted.
2. When the "Welcome to Setup" screen appears, press R to start the Recovery Console.
3. If you have a dual-boot or multiple-boot computer, select the installation that you must access from the Recovery Console.
4. When you are prompted, type the Administrator password. If the administrator password is blank, just press ENTER.
5. At the command prompt, type the appropriate commands to diagnose and repair your Windows XP installation
The following list describes the available commands for the Recovery Console:
• Attrib changes attributes on one file or subdirectory.
• Batch executes commands that you specify in the text file, Inputfile. Outputfile holds the output of the commands. If you omit the Outputfile parameter, output appears on the screen.
• Bootcfg modifies the Boot.ini file for boot configuration and recovery.
• CD (Chdir) operates only in the system directories of the current Windows installation, removable media, the root directory of any hard disk par ion, or the local installation sources.
• Chkdsk The /p switch runs Chkdsk even if the drive is not flagged as dirty. The /r switch locates bad sectors and recovers readable information. This switch implies /p. Chkdsk requires Autochk. Chkdsk automatically looks for Autochk.exe in the startup folder. If Chkdsk cannot find the file in the startup folder, it looks for the Windows 2000 Setup CD-ROM. If Chkdsk cannot find the installation CD-ROM, Chkdsk prompts the user for the location of Autochk.exe.
• Cls clears the screen.
• Copy copies one file to a target location. By default, the target cannot be removable media, and you cannot use wildcard characters. Copying a compressed file from the Windows 2000 Setup CD-ROM automatically decompresses the file.
• Del (Delete) deletes one file. Operates within the system directories of the current Windows installation, removable media, the root directory of any hard disk par ion, or the local installation sources. By default, you cannot use wildcard characters.
• Dir displays a list of all files, including hidden and system files.
• Disable disables a Windows system service or driver. The variable service_or_driver is the name of the service or driver that you want to disable. When you use this command to disable a service, the command displays the service's original startup type before it changes the type to SERVICE_DISABLED. Note the original startup type so that you can use the enable command to restart the service.
• Diskpart manages par ions on hard disk volumes. The /add option creates a new par ion. The /delete option deletes an existing par ion. The variable device is the device name for a new par ion (such as \device\harddisk0). The variable drive is the drive letter for a par ion that you are deleting (for example, D). Par ion is the par ion-based name for a par ion that you are deleting, (for example: \device\harddisk0\par ion1) and can be used instead of the drive variable. The variable size is the size, in megabytes, of a new par ion.
• Enable enables a Windows system service or driver. The variable service_or_driver is the name of the service or driver that you want to enable, and start_type is the startup type for an enabled service. The startup type uses one of the following formats:
SERVICE_BOOT_START
SERVICE_SYSTEM_START
SERVICE_AUTO_START
SERVICE_DEMAND_START
• Exit quits the Recovery Console, and then restarts the computer.
• Expand expands a compressed file. The variable source is the file that you want to expand. By default, you cannot use wildcard characters. The variable destination is the directory for the new file. By default, the destination cannot be removable media and cannot be read-only. You can use the attrib command to remove the read-only attribute from the destination directory. The option /f:filespec is required if the source contains more than one file. This option permits wildcard characters. The /y switch disables the overwrite confirmation prompt. The /d switch specifies that the files will not be expanded and displays a directory of the files in the source.
• Fixboot writes a new startup sector on the system par ion.
• Fixmbr repairs the startup par ion's master boot code. The variable device is an optional name that specifies the device that requires a new Master Boot Record. Omit this variable when the target is the startup device.
• Format formats a disk. The /q switch performs a quick format. The /fs switch specifies the file system.
• Help If you do not use the command variable to specify a command, help lists all the commands that the Recovery Console supports.
• Listsvc displays all available services and drivers on the computer.
• Logon displays detected installations of Windows and requests the local Administrator password for those installations. Use this command to move to another installation or subdirectory.
• Map displays currently active device mappings. Include the arc option to specify the use of Advanced RISC Computing (ARC) paths (the format for Boot.ini) instead of Windows device paths.
• MD (Mkdir) operates only within the system directories of the current Windows installation, removable media, the root directory of any hard disk par ion, or the local installation sources.
• More/Type displays the specified text file on screen.
• Rd (Rmdir) operates only within the system directories of the current Windows installation, removable media, the root directory of any hard disk par ion, or the local installation sources.
• Ren (Rename) operates only within the system directories of the current Windows installation, removable media, the root directory of any hard disk par ion, or the local installation sources. You cannot specify a new drive or path as the target.
• Set displays and sets the Recovery Console environment variables.
• Systemroot sets the current directory to %SystemRoot%.
Wow.
Ok brah I am back for a few minutes. I got this dudes PC all flushed and its running smooth, I wish I had 4.7 GHZ I could do some serious downloading. It will be hard to go back to my 533mhz eMachine
Did you ever burn your music/porn/ and favorite files to disk? Just in case you need a flush.
No, I never burnt all my music and all that stuff to a disk. If I have to risk that while doing this recovery thing, then I am not doing it. I don't have any cds to do that or the time.
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