OT(sorry) XP boot CD

[martin griffith]

My video editing PC has died again, twice in a month or so.
It's in the endless safe mode start up / reboot loop.

I've been browsing the micro$oft site trying to find an Recovery CD
image, but all I seem to find is boot floppies, or clean install CD
tools. (I dont have a floppy drive anywhere in my house)

Any suggestions/ url for a favorite rescue CD image.

The PC boots fine off a Knoppix linux CD, so methinks it's another
hard drive bathtub curve failure.

Please dont tell me to repair it via linux, thats way over my head.

Back to some more googling


martin

 

[Rune Christensen]

My video editing PC has died again, twice in a month or so.
It's in the endless safe mode start up / reboot loop.

I've been browsing the micro$oft site trying to find an Recovery CD
image, but all I seem to find is boot floppies, or clean install CD
tools. (I dont have a floppy drive anywhere in my house)

Any suggestions/ url for a favorite rescue CD image.

The PC boots fine off a Knoppix linux CD, so methinks it's another
hard drive bathtub curve failure.

Please dont tell me to repair it via linux, thats way over my head.

Back to some more googling


martin

Some of the Windows XP CDs have a recovery mode where you can repair boot
sector, harddisc, etc.

Rune

 

[JeffM]

My video editing PC has died again, twice in a month or so.

I've been browsing the micro$oft site
trying to find an Recovery CD image,
but all I seem to find is...clean install CD tools.

The PC boots fine off a Knoppix linux CD

Any suggestions/url for a favorite rescue CD image.
Please dont tell me to repair it via linux, thats way over my head.
martin griffith

I'm not an XP guru, but I trust what Leo Laporte says
and Leo says that you cannot reinstall over an existing XP install.

If I was asking around for Windoze tricks, I'd ask here:
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp
..
..
Knoppix is a general-purpose live-CD distro.
http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php?sort=Purpose&sm=0

There are live CDs specifically for recovery:
http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php?showonly=rescue

It seems to me, you want to become familiar with the command dd
(disk dump) to back up any data that's not backed up,
then it's a clean install of XP.

 

[JeffM]

Any suggestions/url for a favorite rescue CD image.

martin griffith

I forgot about an old bookmark I have:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/02/15/0251249&mode=nested&threshold=5#8284714
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/02/15/0251249&mode=nested&threshold=5#8284679
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/02/15/0251249&mode=nested&threshold=5#8284619

 

[martin griffith]

I'm not an XP guru, but I trust what Leo Laporte says
and Leo says that you cannot reinstall over an existing XP install.

If I was asking around for Windoze tricks, I'd ask here:
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp
.
.
Knoppix is a general-purpose live-CD distro.
http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php?sort=Purpose&sm=0

There are live CDs specifically for recovery:
http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php?showonly=rescue

It seems to me, you want to become familiar with the command dd
(disk dump) to back up any data that's not backed up,
then it's a clean install of XP.

dd, it is a long time since I used that


thanks




martin

 

[H. Brueggemann]

google for "BartPE" (I love it!)

 

[JeffM]

google for "BartPE" (I love it!)

H. Brueggemann

....or go to my links for a discussion (and alternatives).