Recovery

[rangermike]

Hi,
I have a Compaq Presario SN100NX. About a year ago i created a Recovery CDs it took 6 cds. Yesterday i recovered my computer i did a full recovery. IT asked me to put in cd on and so on. Then when it got to cd i put it in and it wouldnt accept it. Then i put in cd 5 in my other computer (emachine) to see whats in it and when i opened it op it was blank. So what do i do i turned off the coputer and it asks me to put in cd 5. What can i do?

 

[~mr mixx~]

it would appear that when you made the recovery cd's, one of them did'nt copy correctly from the backup recovery on the second partition. since the recovery process did not get a chance to finish, everytime you boot up , it will ask you for the cd so it can continue.

here is what to do, when your computer logo disappears, keep hitting the ESC key on your keyboard, then highlight system restore. it will then re-install windows all over again , but you may have the option to restore just the OS and not lose your existing files on the hhd. if not, you'll have to do a destructive recovery, and it will reformat the hhd & restore the hhd to factory settings.

 

[rangermike]

it would appear that when you made the recovery cd's, one of them did'nt copy correctly from the backup recovery on the second partition. since the recovery process did not get a chance to finish, everytime you boot up , it will ask you for the cd so it can continue.

here is what to do, when your computer logo disappears, keep hitting the ESC key on your keyboard, then highlight system restore. it will then re-install windows all over again , but you may have the option to restore just the OS and not lose your existing files on the hhd. if not, you'll have to do a destructive recovery, and it will reformat the hhd & restore the hhd to factory settings.

Hey Mr. Mixx i did what you told me and it didnt work a black screen came up and it said NTLDR Missing. I think this i sbecuase my computer is like 80 percent formated so everything is missing. Does anyone know?

 

[dhaval_1920]

my friend had same problem a while back and like mr mix said...press ESC and it should bring up the boot menu and you can boot from cd (if you have a xp cd) it should work.....

 

[~mr mixx~]

Hey Mr. Mixx i did what you told me and it didnt work a black screen came up and it said NTLDR Missing. I think this i sbecuase my computer is like 80 percent formated so everything is missing. Does anyone know?

i take it that you did'nt have another partition on the hhd with your backup restore, so you'll have to re-install from the win xp cd's, but 1st you'll have to change the boot order in bios to boot from the cd.

when in bios/ change the 1st boot to boot from the cd-rom, pop in the cd with the OS , and re-boot, saving the changed options in bios. also make sure that your cd with the OS on it, is clean and free of smudges, a dirty cd will cause problams when loading and transfering of files to the hhd.

 

[rangermike]

my friend had same problem a while back and like mr mix said...press ESC and it should bring up the boot menu and you can boot from cd (if you have a xp cd) it should work.....

Sorry it took me so long to reply back becuase it took me forever to get a Windows XP CD. Ok i did what dhaval said. I pressed escape and it will to the boot cd I put the cd in. And then the screen turned blac.. Then somthings come real fast like the Device name. After that i see a menu like this"

NLSFUNC R.400 National Support Language
Copywrte, some dates, and etc.
NWCache R.102 Disk Cache
Copwrite, some dates, and etc.

Using DPMS Protected Service
(Then in a small box it says):

Cache Size: 7670 kb (XMX)
Minium Cache Size: 1024 kb
Write-Through drives: A B

The next box that is stuck to the other one says:

Current Option:
/MLX: Program is loaded into convential and XMS memory using NPMS
/BL=16: Lookahead buffer is in convential memory, size is in kb.
/LEND=ON: Lend memory to other application-6646 kb available
/DELAY=Off: Write away is disabled, caches is write-theory

On the bottom is says:
Celdera PR-DOS
(copywrite, dates, and etc)

[DR-DOS] A:1> _

What should i do??? I put the cd in and dint press nothing and the same thing happened. I pressed F10 instead and it still asks me to put the Compaq Recovery CD #5. So I put the Windows XP CD in and it still doesnt work it wont accept it.

 

[dhaval_1920]

looks like it went into DOS (Boot disk in flopy drive?)....make sure there is no floppy disk in the drive...cuz drive A is always floppy drive and you cannot setup xp from dos....and if there is already no disk in floppy drive then something is really screwed up....

 

[rangermike]

looks like it went into DOS (Boot disk in flopy drive?)....make sure there is no floppy disk in the drive...cuz drive A is always floppy drive and you cannot setup xp from dos....and if there is already no disk in floppy drive then something is really screwed up....

nope nothing in drive A