Boot disk/CD

[cool]

Hello
I have a PC running XP professional SP2. I have a offline UPS and due to a
power fluctuation, the system restarted 2 times. During the third time, it
failed to start up; the monitor went blank and the sytem tried to read from
the CD drive.

The problem is I had not made a boot disk/CD and I dont have the original CD
with me. How can I download the same for my system configuration ? I had my
80 GB HD partitioned into 4 and I am afraid if I reinstall XP I will lose
all my data on my C: Drive. Is there any solution where I can boot the sytem
and NOT lose my data on C: Drive.
Please help with this.

Thanks

 

[Mick Murphy]

http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html

Download an ISO file from Knoppix to make a Bootable Live CD to recover
your Data.
Get it from a mirror of your choice on his next page there.
It is about 696MBs compressed.
Boot from it(it uses your RAM and Graphics, but does not install), and copy
your Data to a Flash Drive.
Check to see if you have enough RAM to run it.
Change permissions on FD from read only, so you can copy to it

http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm

And above is a good ISO burner.
It is a shell ext; just right-click on the downloaded ISO file>send Image to
CD

Cheers.

 

[Brian A.]

Hello
I have a PC running XP professional SP2. I have a offline UPS and due to a
power fluctuation, the system restarted 2 times. During the third time, it
failed to start up; the monitor went blank and the sytem tried to read from
the CD drive.

The problem is I had not made a boot disk/CD and I dont have the original CD
with me. How can I download the same for my system configuration ? I had my
80 GB HD partitioned into 4 and I am afraid if I reinstall XP I will lose
all my data on my C: Drive. Is there any solution where I can boot the sytem
and NOT lose my data on C: Drive.
Please help with this.

Thanks

Check in the BIOS to make sure the boot order has not changed. If it has and
the CD drive is set as the first device to boot from, change it to your hard
drive that contains the OS as the first device to boot from.

--

Brian A. Sesko { MS MVP_Windows Desktop User Experience }
Conflicts start where information lacks.
http://basconotw.mvps.org/

Suggested posting do's/don'ts: http://dts-l.com/goodpost.htm
How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375

 

[nass]

So sorry, I am cracking up, the pressure of a poor business year.
I will see a shrink, and get my mind looked at... everything going funny
now. hahahahaha.

Checkmate Mr PaulShit !!!
You lost your Dog (Mick Murphy) He is torn apart in this scam of yours both.
Do you really believe your utter liea and nonsense of that me impersonatimng
myself? You are vicious
and malice person. You posted in three Newsgroup (Help and Support, Security
and Performance and Maintainance
where Mick torn apart to attract simpthy for him and left where he started
his malicious game in General Group?
You are trying to recue him since your game didn't go to plan and microsft
will flush you and him into the Loo, so you thought better to pretend to be
the wiseman
and frame me as an impersonator to get your evil plan objectives achieved in
the NG!!!
But your plan got screwed up so now you taking your Dog (Mick) home bye
Micky<g>
You will soon get my resopnce and I promise you, you will not go away with
it but not here in the NG, out.
You should learn how to play chess before you engage in a tactical game Mr
Paulshit!

 

[Mick Murphy]

John, which version of Knoppix were you using?
The old one: V3.9
Or, the new one: V5.1.1

 

[Mick Murphy]

You are a grubby, little GERM; who will be BANNED from these Newsgroups.
I have contacted your ISP, and your Web Hosting company.
I intend to totally ignore you.
Play with yourself here.
GOODBYE.

 

[ju.c]

A much smaller (50 MB ISO) Linux bootable CD:

http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/download.html


ju.c

 

[Mick Murphy]

John; one thing I will have to try is his DVD Version, just to see what
Drivers are on it.
I think it is about 5-7 Gbs; I haven't had any spare monthly download to do
it.

Cheers.