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<blockquote data-quote="mistmouse" data-source="post: 31264" data-attributes="member: 289"><p>Lothlorian, I may not be able to figure it out, but will have to attempt to do so as I can't afford to take it anywhere. That is why I am trying to fix it myself if at all possible.</p><p></p><p>eaterbooger, the hard drive doesn't appear to have done a hard crash if it has crashed, as at times I can get it to respond. For instance I did borrow a friends XP OS disk and try to boot from it to format and install it and start fresh. It wouldn't go through the whole process, but after that failed, then I restarted it and it went through the setup screen it was supposed to bring up after the recovery. It was acting funny still, so I just started it in safe mode and reinstalled XP from my friends disk. For now it is working, although still not too great. However I may have a problem since when I had to authenticate XP it wouldn't let me use my product key from the side of my computer for the XP installed on my hard drive when I bought it. Instead I had to put in his product key and he says it will not let me use it but for two weeks without registering it and of course I can't register it with his product key. I don't know anybody else that has a Windows XP disk.</p><p></p><p>As for the 8 disks, when I got the computer it didn't come with disks for any of the preloaded software, so I had to make recovery disks for all the preloaded software. It is one of the first things it asks you to do after setup, and it then puts all the software including the OS software, all drivers and application files and such onto the disks. It told me at the beginning I was going to need 8 disks. So, that is what I was trying to do a system recovery from...or what it called a destructive system recovery as I would lose all data on the hard drive. That did happen, but like I said after that was finished it didn't initially come up with the setup screen...it froze up. During my attempts to boot from the XP disk of my friend's, it finally brought up the setup screen on restarting after it froze. So, its days or hours are limited, but I can't afford a new hard drive or OS software so I guess I will hope it has more days left than I think.</p><p></p><p>mistmouse</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mistmouse, post: 31264, member: 289"] Lothlorian, I may not be able to figure it out, but will have to attempt to do so as I can't afford to take it anywhere. That is why I am trying to fix it myself if at all possible. eaterbooger, the hard drive doesn't appear to have done a hard crash if it has crashed, as at times I can get it to respond. For instance I did borrow a friends XP OS disk and try to boot from it to format and install it and start fresh. It wouldn't go through the whole process, but after that failed, then I restarted it and it went through the setup screen it was supposed to bring up after the recovery. It was acting funny still, so I just started it in safe mode and reinstalled XP from my friends disk. For now it is working, although still not too great. However I may have a problem since when I had to authenticate XP it wouldn't let me use my product key from the side of my computer for the XP installed on my hard drive when I bought it. Instead I had to put in his product key and he says it will not let me use it but for two weeks without registering it and of course I can't register it with his product key. I don't know anybody else that has a Windows XP disk. As for the 8 disks, when I got the computer it didn't come with disks for any of the preloaded software, so I had to make recovery disks for all the preloaded software. It is one of the first things it asks you to do after setup, and it then puts all the software including the OS software, all drivers and application files and such onto the disks. It told me at the beginning I was going to need 8 disks. So, that is what I was trying to do a system recovery from...or what it called a destructive system recovery as I would lose all data on the hard drive. That did happen, but like I said after that was finished it didn't initially come up with the setup screen...it froze up. During my attempts to boot from the XP disk of my friend's, it finally brought up the setup screen on restarting after it froze. So, its days or hours are limited, but I can't afford a new hard drive or OS software so I guess I will hope it has more days left than I think. mistmouse [/QUOTE]
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