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Phil Addison
Hi,
I have a Dell Latitude CPt C333GT which I am trying to fix for a friend.
It won't boot into its XP Home original edition. I have a set of 6 boot
disks which get me into Recovery console.
I also have the XP Home CD and a CD reader module but cannot use it at
the same time as the floppy module (haven't got a cable to connect it so
have to swap modules). I also have a network which I can connect to
another machine running WinME. I have not actually had that n/w
connection working yet, because the notebook wont boot.
The notebook gets as far as loading the agp440.sys and then hangs for
ages and finally says the registry cant read 'security' and is dumping
it to disk. It then starts the boot over again.....
My problem is that I am not familiar with the rescue console and it
doesn't behave the same way as previous startup disks. e.g even DIR
command wont run although it is listed by HELP.
I'm pretty computer savvy so some pointers to help me drive the rescue
console would probably get be out of this problem.
Thanks
phil
I have a Dell Latitude CPt C333GT which I am trying to fix for a friend.
It won't boot into its XP Home original edition. I have a set of 6 boot
disks which get me into Recovery console.
I also have the XP Home CD and a CD reader module but cannot use it at
the same time as the floppy module (haven't got a cable to connect it so
have to swap modules). I also have a network which I can connect to
another machine running WinME. I have not actually had that n/w
connection working yet, because the notebook wont boot.
The notebook gets as far as loading the agp440.sys and then hangs for
ages and finally says the registry cant read 'security' and is dumping
it to disk. It then starts the boot over again.....
My problem is that I am not familiar with the rescue console and it
doesn't behave the same way as previous startup disks. e.g even DIR
command wont run although it is listed by HELP.
I'm pretty computer savvy so some pointers to help me drive the rescue
console would probably get be out of this problem.
Thanks
phil