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From: Salvador Freemanson on 3 Feb 2010 05:42 Someone handed me his old laptop, which had a dead battery (i.e. if you remove the power cord, it immediately stops. The battery holds no charge whatsoever), the computer was full of viruses and wouldn't boot. I changed the hard drive and put the original hard disc asside to recover the guy's files for him. It booted up fine from various linux live DVDs, and from a copy of XP. But it wouldn't boot from the manufacturer's master recovery CD. I've checked the CD on another machine, and it's fine. The machine's internal drive is fine as it boots from other CDs Any ideas anybody? It's a Packard Bell R4604 by the way.
From: Bob Villa on 3 Feb 2010 07:16 On Feb 3, 4:42 am, Salvador Freemanson <s...(a)go.home> wrote: > Someone handed me his old laptop, which had a dead battery (i.e. if you > remove the power cord, it immediately stops. The battery holds no charge > whatsoever), the computer was full of viruses and wouldn't boot. > > I changed the hard drive and put the original hard disc asside to > recover the guy's files for him. > It booted up fine from various linux live DVDs, and from a copy of XP. > But it wouldn't boot from the manufacturer's master recovery CD. I've > checked the CD on another machine, and it's fine. The machine's internal > drive is fine as it boots from other CDs > > Any ideas anybody? > It's a Packard Bell R4604 by the way. Can you make another copy from the machine that the recovery CD boots?
From: Barry Watzman on 3 Feb 2010 12:26 Your conclusions that "{whatever} is fine {because}" .... don't follow. The fact is that any given marginal CD can read on one machine (or most machines) and not on another particular machine. Similarly, you can't conclude that a drive is fine because it reads one or a few particular pieces of media. Make an image copy of the restore CD on a machine that is able to read it without difficulty, and then try the restore from the copy. DO NOT use "RW" media; use one time media. Salvador Freemanson wrote: > Someone handed me his old laptop, which had a dead battery (i.e. if you > remove the power cord, it immediately stops. The battery holds no charge > whatsoever), the computer was full of viruses and wouldn't boot. > > I changed the hard drive and put the original hard disc asside to > recover the guy's files for him. > It booted up fine from various linux live DVDs, and from a copy of XP. > But it wouldn't boot from the manufacturer's master recovery CD. I've > checked the CD on another machine, and it's fine. The machine's internal > drive is fine as it boots from other CDs > > Any ideas anybody? > It's a Packard Bell R4604 by the way.
From: Barry Watzman on 3 Feb 2010 16:45 That's true, but the reason was that, at that time (1990's) CDs were not bootable PERIOD. Bootable CDs didn't come along until about 2000. Toshiba laptops since CDs became bootable have all been bootable, but if you go back to something like a Satellite 445 .... yes, you had start from a floppy. me/2 wrote: > > I know on some older Toshiba models the factory restore CD was not bootable. > You had to boot from a floppy disk that loaded the CD-ROM drivers and then > continued the setup from the CD. You said you checked the CD on another > machine. Did it boot on the other machine or did you just check it for > readability? > > me/2
From: the wharf rat on 3 Feb 2010 17:00
In article <hkcqqe$s2k$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Barry Watzman <WatzmanNOSPAM(a)neo.rr.com> wrote: >That's true, but the reason was that, at that time (1990's) CDs were not >bootable PERIOD. Bootable CDs didn't come along until about 2000. Ummmmmm, the windows 98 install cd was bootable... So was the Solaris X86 cd for that matter. |