Re: Windows XP Pro will not load
- From: Tony <Tony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 07:19:12 -0800
Hi Anna,
Thank you for your helpful information. I have never used a disk-cloning
program before as I tend to save my data, as and when required, to a large
external drive.
I do however see the merits in the procedures you describe and I am taking a
note of all the relevant details for future use.
Happily, I have to tell you that I managed to sort my problem out in the
manner I had intended. I was pretty sure my laptop was up to scratch, as it
was working fine with the other drive. I was also sure about my original OS
cd and my new 40gb hardrive which I had them tested, so why was not Windows
able to load? Well, it may be coincidence, fluke or I do not know what, but
after removing the cd from the drive and giving it a good wipe over ( it was
not dirty so it really did not need it), I replaced it, launched it one last
time (I said to myself) and this time the set up continued uninterrupted till
the end as it should have done the first time I tried it.
So there you have it. I now have a fully working Windows XP Pro on a 40gb
disk. Whatever the reason for this behaviour perhaps I will never get to
know, but one thing is for sure with computers, they are fickle things and
one never stops learning for however long one may need to use them.
I would like once again to say thanks to you and all the others who joined
in with their advise/view. I do really appreciate your unselfish work.
Best regards
Tony
"Anna" wrote:
.
Tony wrote:
Hi,
My laptops small hardrive has failed. I obtained a used but fully
working
40gb drive, formatted it and error-check it on my desktop also running
W/XP Pro. After installing it on my laptop and booting from the
original
instal CD (that came with it), it loads all the initial files but stops
responding when it gets to the page "Set up is installing W/XP, with
the
options Enter, Repair etc.) None of these work. I recently replaced and
successfully reinstalled XP on a new disk on my desktop using exactlty
the
same method as described above, so what is stopping Windows loading
now?
Any advise greatly appreciated.
"Tony" <Tony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:AE0CB322-8577-4547-B451-98D09A70EC1D@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi Malke,
Thanks for prompt response. I have just got all the information missing
about this laptop and is as follows:
Laptop Compaq model nx9005 runing W/XP Pro. I gave this computer to my
daughter in perfect working order 2 months ago and while I was away last
week
she tells me everything went blank. She saught the help of a friend who is
in
computers who fitted a small 10gb disk with W/XP Home Edition to help her
out
on some important documents. The laptop is working perfectly well with
this
drive so the optical drive, motherboard and ram memory must all be well??
Her friend needs his disk back (apart from the fact that 10gb is useless)
and I simply want to install my 40gb and load XP Pro from the original CD
Rom
.
(I still got the 10gb working disk with me for the moment).
My 40gb when connected by USb to my desktop seems perfectly ok. I can
download any files or folders to it, delet them etc. Like I said
previously,
I have formatted it and checked it for errors and nothing shows to be
"bad"
about it?
Any further comments?
Thaks
Tony
Tony:
Since you're fortunate enough to have a working HDD in the laptop,
notwithstanding that it's a 10 GB disk, and you have a 40 GB HDD available
as a replacement...
Why don't you consider cloning the contents of that 10 GB HDD to the 40 GB
HDD and then install the latter in the laptop?
I'm assuming, of course, that your daughter finds the contents of the 10 GB
HDD perfectly acceptable or that she can modify its contents after the 40 GB
disk is installed in the laptop and she has a working OS.
Presumably you would use your USB external enclosure as the recipient device
to house the 40 GB HDD during the disk-cloning operation. And, of course,
you would need a disk-cloning program to undertake the process. Do you
presently work with such a program? If not, you (and your daughter) should
consider using one (not only in connection with the present issue) but to
perform routine comprehensive backups of your systems.
If you're interested in going this route there are a number of disk-cloning
programs you should consider. One of them is very popular among posters to
this and related newsgroups - the Acronis True Image program. A trial
version is available at
http://www.acronis.com
The program we strongly recommend is the Casper 5 program. A trial version
is available at http://www.fssdev.com
However, the trial version is slightly crippled in that the disk-space on
the "destination" drive, i.e., the recipient of the clone, cannot be resized
by the trial version of the program. (No such limitation is present in the
licensed version).
So that in your case, should you use the Casper 5 trial version, the 10 GB
"source" HDD would be cloned to the 40 GB "destination" HDD, however, *only*
a 10 GB partition would be created on the destination drive. The remaining
disk space on that disk would be unallocated. Of course you could use a
third-party utility such as Partition Magic or the freely-available EASEUS
Partition Manager to expand the 10 GB partition to encompass the full
capacity of the 40 GB disk.
Anna
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