[BNM] PC whiz

[Guy Tierney]

I have two boot discs - the original that came with the machine with win2k
and one Dave kindly burnt for me with XP. Neither seem to work - but its an
external cd/floppy drive so maybe the software needed to see/read the drive
isn't there at this grass roots level?? It says that there is a media error
- check the cable.

Option 4 looking more and more likely.
gt




on 1/10/06 10:31 am, Nick Tong - TalkWebSolutions.co.uk at
nicktong at gmail.com wrote:

> 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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