[BNM] PC whiz

[David Stone]

Urgh, apparently I'm too hung over to change email address and email 
just Guy... everyone but Guy, please ignore me.

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David Stone

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David Stone wrote:
> 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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> w: http://www.builtbydave.co.uk/
> t: +44 (0)7908 257349
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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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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