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]

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.

 

[Mark Adams]

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.

 

[Doum]

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.