back up disc

[jon]

i bought my laptop which came with windows xp home edition installed but as

usual there was no disc included my computer will no longer boot up and asks

for the boot disc. is there a boot disc that i can download from somewhere.

 

[Tim Slattery]

jon wrote:



>i bought my laptop which came with windows xp home edition installed but as

>usual there was no disc included my computer will no longer boot up and asks

>for the boot disc. is there a boot disc that i can download from somewhere.



Look in the documentation that came with your system (or find it at

the manufacturer's site online). There should be some way to restore

your machine to factory state.



That may mean that you lose all your data. You could remove the disk,

use an adapter to hook it up to another machine, and copy the data

that you need to keep. Then put it back into the laptop, and go

through the recovery procedure.



--

Tim Slattery

Slattery_T@bls.gov

http://members.cox.net/slatteryt

 

[Mark Adams]

"jon" wrote:



> i bought my laptop which came with windows xp home edition installed but as

> usual there was no disc included my computer will no longer boot up and asks

> for the boot disc. is there a boot disc that i can download from somewhere.



Google Knoppix boot disk. Download the .iso image and burn it to CD. Boot

the machine with the Knoppix disk and copy all of your data onto a USB hard

drive. Once your data is safe, restore the machine from the hidden recovery

partition (follow the instruction manual) Once restored, use Acronis True

Image to make an image of your system to the USB hard drive.



In the future, if your hard drive fails, it will take the recovery partition

with it. Since you don't have a recovery disk or an XP install disk, you will

no longer have a way to reinstall your operating system. With the Acronis

image, simply replace the failed hard drive and reinstall your system from

the image to the new hard drive. You'll be back in business in less than an

hour.

 

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>

> "jon" wrote:

>

>> i bought my laptop which came with windows xp home edition installed

>> but as usual there was no disc included my computer will no longer

>> boot up and asks for the boot disc. is there a boot disc that i can

>> download from somewhere.

>

> Google Knoppix boot disk. Download the .iso image and burn it to CD.

> Boot the machine with the Knoppix disk and copy all of your data onto

> a USB hard drive. Once your data is safe, restore the machine from the

> hidden recovery partition (follow the instruction manual) Once

> restored, use Acronis True Image to make an image of your system to

> the USB hard drive.

>

> In the future, if your hard drive fails, it will take the recovery

> partition with it. Since you don't have a recovery disk or an XP

> install disk, you will no longer have a way to reinstall your

> operating system. With the Acronis image, simply replace the failed

> hard drive and reinstall your system from the image to the new hard

> drive. You'll be back in business in less than an hour.

>



And if the hard disk is not already dead, once it is restored to factory

state, he could create his restoration CDs or DVDs.