Re: Dell Recovery Disk specific XP version?
- From: havenlad <havenlad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:49:01 -0700
I would be very surprised if any of these ideas work. Dell laptops are
horrible when goosed. If you can't respre from the restore partition, it is
doubtful an XP Boot disk will work as they are designed to not be able to
boot up from one of them. If you know how to slipstream, make sure you
slipstream the appropriate CD ROM drivers and whatever connection method you
use, make sure the driver for that is working, at a guess that would be your
10/100 card.
As a last resort, and this is the route I am taking with one of mine, buy
the rescue disk from Dell.
I hope you prove me wrong.
"Ray Parrish" wrote:
Your instructions are here -.
http://www.howtohaven.com/system/createwindowssetupdisk.shtml
Later, Ray Parrish
Hogweed wrote:
Hi – I’m trying to restore a laptop which has been comprehensively wrecked by
a virus (yt8a.exe – look forward to it). It's a Dell, and isn’t supplied with
an XP or recovery disk as such. Dell expect you to prepare your own recovery
disk, using a utility on the laptop. Unfortunately, I can no longer boot XP,
though I can see all the files on the disk when I attach it to another
computer as a slave, using an adapter.
There’s an i386 directory on the disk – can I make a basic XP CD to restore
her laptop just using that? I know from experience that I can't just use any
old XP CD from another computer with her license key – will using her i386
directory install the correct version to use with her key?
I can’t see any other way of restoring her computer... urgent of course.
Thanks for any help provided.
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