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Tricky XP resintall
lowlylowlycook
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OK, my brother has a notebook that seems to have some kind of malware on it. I'd like to nuke the OS and start over but
1 He seems to have lost his recovery or OS disk that came with it.
2. The DVD-drive doesn't work. Won't read the data or music disks. Nothing. So I can't boot off one of the disks I have from another computer but use the product key from the sticker on his.
3. So I tried sharing the CD-ROM from my own laptop over the network. This works but when I run the setup off the DVD it refuses to do a reinstall because the version on the disk is older than that on the computer. The solution it offers is to boot off the disk and do the install that way. Not going to happen.
4. No profit.
So a couple questions. Any quick tricks to boot off a shared drive in XP? What are the chances that a reinstall would fix the DVD drive? If there is something wrong with it physically then I'm guessing he should just buy a new laptop since this one is old enough to have a P4 in it.
1 He seems to have lost his recovery or OS disk that came with it.
2. The DVD-drive doesn't work. Won't read the data or music disks. Nothing. So I can't boot off one of the disks I have from another computer but use the product key from the sticker on his.
3. So I tried sharing the CD-ROM from my own laptop over the network. This works but when I run the setup off the DVD it refuses to do a reinstall because the version on the disk is older than that on the computer. The solution it offers is to boot off the disk and do the install that way. Not going to happen.
4. No profit.
So a couple questions. Any quick tricks to boot off a shared drive in XP? What are the chances that a reinstall would fix the DVD drive? If there is something wrong with it physically then I'm guessing he should just buy a new laptop since this one is old enough to have a P4 in it.
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Current plan is to try to burn a Windows 7 disk and see if I can install that.
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Compaq Presario R3000. According to the Help/Advice and their support info you need the disk. I think it's a bit too old for having the partition.
Would love to be wrong. heh.
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Thanks to everyone that tried to help.
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Well it used to work and if I said the word BIOS to my brother or his wife their eyes would glaze over. Furthermore when I did take a glance at the boot order, I didn't notice very many options at all. Still I should take another look.
Oh and where do they hide the laptop drives at Newegg? I only saw external or Desktop versions.
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The slim ones.
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