Re: No restore Disk



fcgiii wrote:
Thanks

I made a restore disk for my (good) laptop but not for the wife's
(bad) laptop. (Clarification, laptop is bad, wife is mad). When the
first crash came up I tried the system restore and it failed. I
tried the restore disk and it failed too. I did a low level diskchk
and "repaired" the bad sectors then installed XP from another
machines master disk. Clearly this is only a short term colution.

I have Norton Ghost. I will use it to make a backup of the good
laptop and then try that to restore the bad one. Probably after
rep;acing the hard drive.

Thanks.

"LVTravel" wrote:

Since both of these laptops are "identical" one of these two methods
will possibly work without having to repurchase Windows.

In the documentation that came with the computer, did it tell you
that you have the ability to create a restore CD or DVD? If so and
you haven't run it on the 2nd laptop do so immediately. You can
then possibly use this restore CD to redo the 1st laptop using the
license key on the bottom of the first laptop. If it won't restore
on the 1st laptop, at least you will have it to rebuild the second
if it fails.

If the 2nd computer has a hidden partition that won't create a
restore CD/DVD you can try this. Purchase a new hard drive and
clone (using some version of a cloning program that will clone an
entire hard drive) the 2nd computer's entire drive image to the new
hard drive. Place the cloned hard drive into the 1st laptop and
attempt a restore to the hard drive using the activation code on the
bottom of the 1st laptop.

Hope one of these methods work, let us know.

"fcgiii" <fcgiii@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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My laptop XP crashed. Due to bad spots on the disk the system
restore did not work. My vendor will not give me a system restore
disk, citing license
agreements. I have a copy of XP for a desktop computer and tried
to use it
to correct the laptop XP, but it ended up installing over the old
version. I
tried entering my XP license code but it is not accepted. I need to
somehow
reinstall XP.

I have an identical laptop bought at the same time. Is there any
way I can
copy Windows XP from this one to the other one and then use the
correct license code?

I paid for two licenses. Seems to me there ought to be a way to
reinstall XP on the damaged machine.

TIA, Fred

If the disk is showing bad sectors it is on its way out, replace it.


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