Hi. I've got an issue. For an unknown reason, Windows Vista Home Premium on my laptop just decided to cease to function. It came with no recovery disks (I had to create my own with their little recovery disk creator, which errored when I tried to create disk 2 so that won't work), it won't recover when I try to recover it from files on the harddrive, I can't install Windows XP because whenever I select a partition it errors, I don't have any driver disks (didn't come with any) and I am extremely pissed. With disk 1 of the recovery disk, I actually managed to get something happening, but it didn't detect any operating systems installed and when I tried to repair it just did nothing. It will go to the loading screen with the little green bar sliding from side to side, but then it blue screens and restarts. What can I do to completely wipe the harddrive and install windows XP from the CD I have? I don't have any drivers for it, and the only disks that came with it are the "Upgrade your Windows Vista Experience" disks which are probably useless to me. The laptop is less than 2 months old and is a Toshiba Satellite A200-AH7. I'd rather not open it up because it'd void the warranty. Help?
pop in XP disc, reformat done. if that doesn't work you have a hardware issue and then it's time to use that warranty
there is no option to reformat.. when I select a partition to install on it gives me an error. I'll tell you the error in a sec. BTW, it the windows XP disk is an OEM from Dell from my old computer because it's the only OS I have on hand, if that helps. It says there are 4 partitions. there is F: which is 1500mb with 1500mb free C: which is 13684mb with 13684mb free D: which is 7643mb with 7643free and G which it says is "Inactive (OS/2 boot man)" which is 6799mb with 6799mb free I don't know why it says all of the partitions are empty.. I choose the largest partition, C:, and it says: An error occured while setup was updating partition information on: 15626mb Disk 0 at ID 0 on bus 0 on atapi [MBR]. Setup cannot continue. To quit Setup, press F3.
Just thought I'd add this: My dad's laptop did basically the exact same thing a few months ago.. could there be any connection? The guy at the store said something about "dirty power" or something in some parts of the city.. but I've had a desktop for years with no problem. Also: When I try to boot up in Safe Mode, the loading stops on \windows\system32\drivers\crcdisk.sys I googled it, and apparently it is a problem. http://forums.computers.toshiba-europe.com...?threadID=15684 http://forum.parallels.com/thread11881.html http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPo...0&SiteID=17 http://forums.cnet.com/5208-6035_102-0.htm...752&start=0 Also the first few results were all on Toshiba laptops.. so.. yeah. Could this be of any help?
personaly i think it might be a harddrive failure, sounds like something that hapened when i tried to build my first computer (the harddrive was faulty)
most laptops these days dont come with a rescue disc, but have a "hidden" partition on the drive with all recovery files needed to recover windows, with some laptops you can enable this partition in bios (be carefull in there! it can make you pc even more screwed) or by pressing F12 or F10 or something like that at boot
see if a mate or some one has the discs to vista home premium then try reinstalling or repairing but using YOUR serial key wich should be on the pc good luck if not try going into bios set ti to boot from cd insert windows xp delete partition and re install see if that worls
when you boot from cd, get to the area where it mentions partition options. then select to do a full format on such said partition. it might not sau reformat per se, but it is.
So your recieving the Blue Screen of Death? Am I correct? If so since you have no recovery disk your only option is to reformat it. You can try 100 times to restart and hope it comes back even in safe mode. But I garentee you, you'll get the BSoD everytime. The reason you are recieving this isn't because of hard disk crash or anything. Its because your Disk is full of trash. Now You may click Empty Recycle Bin... but your not fully deleting it. There is still a part in the system that keeps the data in your trash. I've tested this twice and each time I would install delete/unistall stuff majorly restart and there it came up. Dell doesn't have many options when it comes to this stuff. Thats why I will never buy another Dell in my life. There are so limited of what you can do.. You can't even access the BIOS menu, which is so stupid...
