[BNM] PC whiz

[Nick Tong - TalkWebSolutions.co.uk]

Hi Guy - if you can boot from a server and get into the bios you should be
able to boot from disk (cd/floppy).  Get the boot disk from here
http://www.bootdisk.com/ then reformat your hard drive as you say.  If you
go for option 4 please send the youTube link ;)

On 30/09/06, Guy Tierney <guy at south.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Well hopefully I'm in the right place....
>
> I have had donated an Acer laptop / notebook - its ok and all worked fine
> until I got my grubby mits on it. I tried to un-install some network
> software and now the darn thing wont boot up - giving a message about a
> missing DLL file.
>
> That's ok thinks me, I'll boot from the CD and reformat etc etc but it
> wont
> seem to do that either (something about media failure). It has an option
> in
> the start-up sequence by pushing F2 (BIOS??) to boot from a server but I
> have no other windows machines here. It seems to me I have a couple of
> options...
>
> Repair the HD with another machine / caddy
> Bin or swap the Hard Drive (its only a 30gb)
> Boot from a server
> Smash the fekking thing to tiny pieces with any heavy object that comes to
> mind, drive over it several times, maybe angle grind it, shoot it, stamp
> on
> it then piss on it from a great height and dance on its sticky crystal
> remains to the sound of a little known jig "die Bill die, you scourge of
> humanity"!!!
>
> If anyone would care to offer some suggestions / help with the thing or
> even
> a local reasonable pro who could it'd be appreciated.
>
> Cheers
> Gt
>
>
>
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