recovery CD hangs in middle of transfer

[Guest]

Recently, my computer (emachine) crashed due to virus worm (I am on a borrwed win98
I am not sure if this is related to hardware damage. I've trie
to do a reinstall using your recovery cd. However, that recover
cd seems to not work. It will hang in the middle of the ghost transfe
process (most time stopped at around 80%). Because it does no
successfully transfer the image over, my computer is no
non-operational. I tried win98 boot but I don't know what to type at pompt. can I get a recovery program on a floppy disk? The ones I tried to download say I need higher density disk than 1.44 but I can find none. Thanks for any help I am broke from car repairs and now my business is gone too

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

You must return your eMachine computer to its original hardware
configuration before using eMachine's Recovery method. Disconnect
all peripheral hardware devices except for the monitor, mouse
and keyboard. Any internal hardware changes or upgrades must
be undone, such as removing or disconnecting a second drive you may
have installed or changing the video or sound cards to the original.

The eMachine Recovery process looks for the original factory hardware
configuration, otherwise it will fail to execute as designed.

On page 5-1 of your eMachine User Guide, it explains that restoring
Windows XP involves reformatting the hard drive. The eMachine
Restore CDs does the reformatting for you before reinstalling XP.
In other words, do not manually reformat your drive..... allow the Restore
CD to do its job. Please read your eMachine User Guide for details.

If you misplaced your eMachine User Guide, you can download another.

Visit: http://www.e4me.com/support/user_guide.html?cat=desktop&prod=T1842


--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/

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| Recently, my computer (emachine) crashed due to virus worm (I am on a borrwed win98)
| I am not sure if this is related to hardware damage. I've tried
| to do a reinstall using your recovery cd. However, that recovery
| cd seems to not work. It will hang in the middle of the ghost transfer
| process (most time stopped at around 80%). Because it does not
| successfully transfer the image over, my computer is now
| non-operational. I tried win98 boot but I don't know what to type at pompt. can I get a recovery program
on a floppy disk? The ones I tried to download say I need higher density disk than 1.44 but I can find none.
Thanks for any help I am broke from car repairs and now my business is gone too

 

[D.Currie]

Recently, my computer (emachine) crashed due to virus worm (I am on a borrwed win98)
I am not sure if this is related to hardware damage. I've tried
to do a reinstall using your recovery cd.

It's not "my" recovery disk, it's either yours or emachines, depending on
how you look at it.

However, that recovery

cd seems to not work. It will hang in the middle of the ghost transfer
process (most time stopped at around 80%). Because it does not
successfully transfer the image over, my computer is now
non-operational. I tried win98 boot but I don't know what to type at

pompt. can I get a recovery program on a floppy disk?

That would be interesting. Assuming the recovery CD you're using is just
about full of data, that would be something like 450 floppies.

The ones I tried to download say I need higher density disk than 1.44 but I

can find none.

If you're trying to download directly to a floppy, that may be the problem.
But if you're downloading a boot disk of some sort, that's not going to get
Windows back onto your computer for you, it's just going to boot the
computer. You'd get that prompt that you don't know what to do with.

Thanks for any help I am broke from car repairs and now my business is gone

too

Call emachines. It's their recovery CD and they might have an idea what's
supposed to be happening 80 percent. It's possible you've got some bad
hardware.

Another thought: if you added or upgraded or changed any hardware since you
bought the computer, that might be the cause of the emachines disk failing.