[BNM] PC whiz

[David Stone]

If no useful info on BNM, bring it to the farm (or lunch, whichever is 
first), with the XP cd - I'll take a look.

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David Stone

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Guy Tierney wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> 
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> 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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