Re: No restore Disk
- From: "LVTravel" <noone@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:30:43 -0500
Purchase a new hard drive. I should have specified that in my original 1st
paragraph like I did in the second paragraph. When you start having bad
sectors, it is time to replace the drive asap.
Make the image of the restore partition on the good laptop and using that
clone it to the new hard drive for the bad laptop. Don't worry too much
about the data or working OS image on the good laptop. You won't be able to
use this on the bad laptop and it should be deleted from the "bad" laptop
after the image is created on the new hard drive before you run the restore
using the key on the bottom of the bad laptop..
"fcgiii" <fcgiii@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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
.
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