Any ideas guys?
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Any ideas guys?
Hello. My mate got a Time laptop running XP for free from a neighbour because her 4 year old son did something to it as she went to answer the phone!!!!
Any way, the problem is that, when I switch it on the black screen comes on, the one where it detects the HDD etc etc. Now after it does that the screen goes black and there's a white line like this -, in the left top corner and it flashes for a sec and that's it!!! Nothing! No Windows loading or nothing???
Any ideal?? I personally think that Windows has gone AWOL on it? So i thought a clean install of Windows would do the trick?
Now then, I have a copy of windows on my Desktop Pc along with a legit key I purchased from windows months ago to activate a fresh copy on my PC when that went belly up, and I can use the key 1 more time.
My question is, how would I burn it on to a CD? Would I need to burn it as an ISO? And would any CD do? What I mean by that is, would I have to use an CD-R? or would a DVD-R CD work ok???
Cheers in advance guys
Any way, the problem is that, when I switch it on the black screen comes on, the one where it detects the HDD etc etc. Now after it does that the screen goes black and there's a white line like this -, in the left top corner and it flashes for a sec and that's it!!! Nothing! No Windows loading or nothing???
Any ideal?? I personally think that Windows has gone AWOL on it? So i thought a clean install of Windows would do the trick?
Now then, I have a copy of windows on my Desktop Pc along with a legit key I purchased from windows months ago to activate a fresh copy on my PC when that went belly up, and I can use the key 1 more time.
My question is, how would I burn it on to a CD? Would I need to burn it as an ISO? And would any CD do? What I mean by that is, would I have to use an CD-R? or would a DVD-R CD work ok???
Cheers in advance guys
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I copied it from my old XP CD that I've lost. Lucky eh?
Saying that though, I was told that you could download a copy from any were and it's legal as long as you've purchased an product key from Microsoft?
I'm sure someone will correct me on that though
Saying that though, I was told that you could download a copy from any were and it's legal as long as you've purchased an product key from Microsoft?
I'm sure someone will correct me on that though
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Jack, is it a pain in the **** to do it that way? As I do have an USB stick.
Kieran, when I press F8 all I get is the boot from options.
I've gone as far as the screen that asks me to ''Press any key to boot from CD'' And when I hit a key the screen goes blank and stays blank?? Could it be that I haven't burned the CD properly?
Ant, I'm burning a image of Ubuntu on a CD as I type this to see if that does anything.
Kieran, when I press F8 all I get is the boot from options.
I've gone as far as the screen that asks me to ''Press any key to boot from CD'' And when I hit a key the screen goes blank and stays blank?? Could it be that I haven't burned the CD properly?
Ant, I'm burning a image of Ubuntu on a CD as I type this to see if that does anything.
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Hello Mate
Like Kieran says try hitting F8 or F5 when the black screen first boots up. If it give you the option you want to boot up in safe mode with network support. If you can get that far then you know windows is working. If you manage to boot up in safe mode just try a standard restart and see if it boots as normal..
The only way to boot it from disc is to have it converted to an ISO file.
Has for the disc you will probably need a DVD + rw with the size of the file.
Like Kieran says try hitting F8 or F5 when the black screen first boots up. If it give you the option you want to boot up in safe mode with network support. If you can get that far then you know windows is working. If you manage to boot up in safe mode just try a standard restart and see if it boots as normal..
The only way to boot it from disc is to have it converted to an ISO file.
Has for the disc you will probably need a DVD + rw with the size of the file.
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Thanks for that Jack.
Kieran, yes I can see the HD in the BIOS!!
I threw a CD with Umbuntu in it. I got the purpleish screen up with the Umbuntu logo and the dots below it. Was loading ok but the screen went black, then pupleish for 5 seconds and then back to black and it has been like that now for 6 minutes???
Does Umbuntu take a long time to load/install or has the bloody thing hanged?
Kieran, yes I can see the HD in the BIOS!!
I threw a CD with Umbuntu in it. I got the purpleish screen up with the Umbuntu logo and the dots below it. Was loading ok but the screen went black, then pupleish for 5 seconds and then back to black and it has been like that now for 6 minutes???
Does Umbuntu take a long time to load/install or has the bloody thing hanged?
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Thanks for that Jack.
Kieran, yes I can see the HD in the BIOS!!
I threw a CD with Umbuntu in it. I got the purpleish screen up with the Umbuntu logo and the dots below it. Was loading ok but the screen went black, then pupleish for 5 seconds and then back to black and it has been like that now for 6 minutes???
Does Umbuntu take a long time to load/install or has the bloody thing hanged?
Kieran, yes I can see the HD in the BIOS!!
I threw a CD with Umbuntu in it. I got the purpleish screen up with the Umbuntu logo and the dots below it. Was loading ok but the screen went black, then pupleish for 5 seconds and then back to black and it has been like that now for 6 minutes???
Does Umbuntu take a long time to load/install or has the bloody thing hanged?
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Give it time, did you choose to install or run from disk? I think the default is to run from Disk. That's good as you should be able to explore the hard drive, if you don't care about it just install Ubuntu anyhow, you might like it.
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I didn't choose from no where as all i did was let it do it thing. I haven't come to a part where it has asked me to do anything yet. But it has changed to this:
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Just had an Error box popping up
It says ''The panel encountered a problem while loading ''OAFFID:GNOME_WindowListApplete::
Do you want to delete???
It says ''The panel encountered a problem while loading ''OAFFID:GNOME_WindowListApplete::
Do you want to delete???
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lol. I'm at a screen now where i have a pic of a file with examples in the top and install Ubuntu underneath. Clicking install has not done nothing yet!!
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I'd be tempted to try XP, you should be able to just burn the contents you copied from your old CD to a new one, no fuss. Or if you want a laugh have a go at creating the USB stick, it took me five days to perfect mine, but I did include a lot of tweaks.
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Jack, I've had a look at the USB method
I copied the copy of XP on to a disk and lobbed it into the Laptop, and it went to the screen that says ''press a key to boot from CD'' and guess what!!! Nothing!!!!! Just a black screen!!
But what's bizzare is that I went into the BIOS to disable the primary and only HDD and guess what?? When I booted from CD/DVD it went straight to the blue Windows setup screen!!! But after I choose to format the thing it restarts and then fails to boot again!!!!!!
I copied the copy of XP on to a disk and lobbed it into the Laptop, and it went to the screen that says ''press a key to boot from CD'' and guess what!!! Nothing!!!!! Just a black screen!!
But what's bizzare is that I went into the BIOS to disable the primary and only HDD and guess what?? When I booted from CD/DVD it went straight to the blue Windows setup screen!!! But after I choose to format the thing it restarts and then fails to boot again!!!!!!
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