RECOVERY CD: "WRONG MACHINE"

[MATT]

I tried to reset my computer to reinstall Windows XP using
the recovery CD. But I got the following error: "WRONG
MACHINE" What can I do to reinstall XP ? Please note that
I do not have the original CD as XP was originally
provided with my computer when I bought it.
Thanks for your help.

 

[Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP Windows Shell/User\)]

I tried to reset my computer to reinstall Windows XP using
the recovery CD. But I got the following error: "WRONG
MACHINE" What can I do to reinstall XP ? Please note that
I do not have the original CD as XP was originally
provided with my computer when I bought it.
Thanks for your help.

Then what CD do you have? A recovery CD for a different machine will not
work on another machine.

 

[MATT]

I use the original reboot CD provided by Toshiba (I have a
Toshiba computer).

For info, the reason why I want to reset is because my
current Windows XP is not properly working. After
discussion with Microsoft the only solution to save my
data was to find from a friend a reinstallation CD of
Windows XP. That is what I have done. Now I have two
parallell Windows XP systems on my computer. To get a
clear installation of Windows I would like to reinstall
everything from my current recovery CD but "wrong machine"
error appears.
Should I remove the parallell installation of XP and try
again?

 

[Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP Windows Shell/User\)]

I use the original reboot CD provided by Toshiba (I have a
Toshiba computer).

For info, the reason why I want to reset is because my
current Windows XP is not properly working. After
discussion with Microsoft the only solution to save my
data was to find from a friend a reinstallation CD of
Windows XP. That is what I have done. Now I have two
parallell Windows XP systems on my computer. To get a
clear installation of Windows I would like to reinstall
everything from my current recovery CD but "wrong machine"
error appears.
Should I remove the parallell installation of XP and try
again?

You have misunderstood the instructions from Microsoft. All you've done is
gotten a recovery CD for a different machine. It matters not that both
machines are Toshiba, they are different machines and your mahcine will not
recognize the CD from the other machine.

Microsoft was suggesting you borrow an actual XP CD if you have a friend who
has one as opposed to a recovery or restore CD which is what you apparantly
have.

That explains why you continue to get the message that it is the wrong
machine.

 

[Matt]

The CD I borrowed was a DELL REINSTALLATION windows XP CD,
not a recovery CD. This CD gave me the opportunity to make
a parallal installation of XP to save my data. Prior to do
that I never used my own recovery CD because it would have
delete all my data.

Now this is the very first time I want to use my own
Toshiba recovery CD and I have got for the first time the
error message. Therefore I am wondering what I can do to
proceed further and to have a clean installation of XP
from my own recovery CD.

Thansk for your input, Matthieu

 

[matt]

Thank you.
I will visit bootdisk.com to download a windows 98 floppy
disk.
I do know if I will be able to delete the non-dos
partition as you mentioned as I do not know how to do it
but I will see or get in touch with Microsoft.

Matthieu

 

[Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP Windows Shell/User\)]

Thank you.
I will visit bootdisk.com to download a windows 98 floppy
disk.
I do know if I will be able to delete the non-dos
partition as you mentioned as I do not know how to do it
but I will see or get in touch with Microsoft.

Matthieu

You're welcome. If you get into FDISK as I describe, you should have no
problems deleting the NON-DOS partition if one exists on your system. You
will see a NON-DOS option in the first set of options in FDISK.