Laptops Don't Bounce

[Guest]

So I dropped my laptop - actually, it fell off a shelf about three feet high.

Won't reboot - so before getting all artsy about diagnosing things, I was
just gonna try rebooting it with the "Rescue Disks" I made a while back...

BUT I made them on my OTHER machine! THIS one doesn't have a floppy drive!

So, option one will be to reboot with my XP disc.

***QUESTION ONE: The XP disc is bootable, right? So that SHOULD be me first
option, right?

***QUESTION TWO: Can I make a CD using the Automated System Recovery Wizard
on a DIFFERENT machine (both running XP, SP2) and use that on the dropped
one? Or does that Wizard make a CD SPECIFIC To the machine it's run on?

I never much worried about this machine - it's a traveler, so all the
document data is archived elsewhere, but I sure would hate to have to put in
a new HD, and do all the reinstalls, tweak my software prefs, etc.

Thanks!

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

The XP CD is bootable.

Automatic System Restore will ONLY work with a floppy disk as well as either
a second partition or an external hard drive. You can't use it on a drive
with only a single partition. You can buy a USB floppy drive which will
work and they're not expensive.

 

[Guest]

Thanks. Keep your fingers crossed it works!

Otherwise it's a very expensive paperweight...

rjb