Using the XP restore disk

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I have had to format my original drive and am using my friends hard disk to
boot from. The restore disk will not reload the operating system back onto
the formatted hard disk.

Can anyone offer any help please?
 
Jonfoo said:
I have had to format my original drive and am using my friends hard
disk to
boot from. The restore disk will not reload the operating system back
onto the formatted hard disk.

Can anyone offer any help please?
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Your post is a little confusing. How can you use your friend's hard
drive to boot from? Did you physically take your old hard drive out
(why?) and put his in instead?

What type of computer do you have and what did you actually do?

Here is a link that will show you what details to include in your next
post so you can get focused help:

http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm

Malke
 
Thanks for replying!

My original problem was a no boot situation (on my own drive). I tried
everything I could think of to get it to boot after using F5 last known good
config option failed.

I added my friends disk into my IDE bus, booted from that and managed to get
most of my data from my drive on to a combination of his drive, some pen
drives and some CDs, before I lost access to it completely.

Attempting to use the restore disk at that stage wouldn't work and I
couldn't get the drive to open - I could see it but it wouldn't open.

I tried the drive test and in the end I formatted it. I could then open it
and copy files to it, but when I reduced the system to my drive only, I still
couldn't get the restore disk to copy to it.

I've put my friends drive back on so I can get on line.

The system is a Tiny 1.8 MHz with 512MB mem.

Thanks
 
Jonfoo said:
Thanks for replying!

My original problem was a no boot situation (on my own drive). I
tried everything I could think of to get it to boot after using F5
last known good config option failed.

I added my friends disk into my IDE bus, booted from that and managed
to get most of my data from my drive on to a combination of his drive,
some pen drives and some CDs, before I lost access to it completely.

Attempting to use the restore disk at that stage wouldn't work and I
couldn't get the drive to open - I could see it but it wouldn't open.

I tried the drive test and in the end I formatted it. I could then
open it and copy files to it, but when I reduced the system to my
drive only, I still couldn't get the restore disk to copy to it.

I've put my friends drive back on so I can get on line.

The system is a Tiny 1.8 MHz with 512MB mem.
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It sounds like your hard drive is faulty. Download a diagnostic utility
from the drive mftr.'s website. You will create a bootable cd/floppy
with that file. Boot with it and do a thorough test. If the drive fails
any physical tests, replace it.

I believe that Time has taken over support of Tiny computers. If you
still can't get the restore disk to function after 1) finding out that
the original hard drive is still physically good; or 2) after replacing
the hard drive if it is bad, then you have a few choices. You can
contact Time tech support and get them to send you a new restore disk;
you can take the machine to a local computer shop or borrow a friend's
XP OEM install disk and clean-install using the product key that is on
the sticker on your machine; or you can purchase a retail version of
XP.

Malke
 
Thanks for all the advice Malke, I'll follow it up. I'd thought I'd reached
the end, but you've proved there are still steps to take.

Thanks again.
 
The restore image is on the hard drive, not the recovery disk. The
recovery CD just unlocks and copies the image. If the restoration
fails, the problem is probably with the hard drive.
Which version of the Tiny recovery disk are you using, and what error
message are you getting when you try to run it? Time/Tiny supplied
several versions of the recovery CD, not all compatible

demdike
 
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