System Recovery failure

[PD52]

Hello all, need help on a destructive system recovery I am trying to complete
on my laptop. I have the regular xp home edition and I needed to do a
destructive system recovery. All went well until the about the middle of the
"finalizing" stage of the recovery when xp does a "searching for installed
hardware", and then the laptop freezes/locks up. Any help would be greatly
appreciated for a solution!!! Thanks.

 

[db.·.. >]

due to it being a laptop
you will have to install
proprietary hardware /
device drivers from the
homesite of the machine.

you might also want to
check their faq's on their
methodology for restoring
your machine.

 

[db.·.. >]

incidentally, the reason
for you installing the o.s.
is unclear.

perhaps, faulty/defective
hardware is the issue that
was causing your o.s.
and now the reinstallation
of the o.s. grief.

 

[PD52]

thanks for your replies db, long story short, reason for reinstalling os is
windows all of a sudden didnt let me put a cursor in any area where i needed
to type with the keyboard, ie forms etc. but it still let me use the mouse to
press buttons, use toolbars etc. got frustrated so i decided to backup and do
a system recovery. dont think it was a virus or any of that as i was pretty
good at keeping the laptop clean with Norton I.S. oh yeah, i did send an
email to gateway for help. thanks for that.

 

[db.·.. >]

sounds like low memory.

perhaps it would be worth
a try if you boot into
safemode and test the
issue with notepad, word
pad and or word.

 

[Tony4554]

This may sound silly but... Are you working with a wireless mouse? Have the
batteries been replaced. I just had a client with the same issue and I had
her install new batteries and all is well.