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Re: Do laptops burn nicely?
« Reply #30 on: 26 September 2006, 09:03:31 »
Sounds a bit like HP/Compaq consumer laptop?

How big was the old hard disk, and how big is the new one?
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Re: Do laptops burn nicely?
« Reply #31 on: 26 September 2006, 09:07:18 »
It is a Compaq Presario X1360US, BIOS is Hewlett-Packard 68BAL Ver. F .55

I am trying with Pro, have not been working with Home this week.

Now that I think about it, won't boot camp on my Mac install XP to an external drive?  I'll have a look at that.
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Re: Do laptops burn nicely?
« Reply #32 on: 26 September 2006, 09:08:11 »
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Sounds a bit like HP/Compaq consumer laptop?

How big was the old hard disk, and how big is the new one?


Yeah, it is.  Old - 60 GB, New - 40 GB
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Re: Do laptops burn nicely?
« Reply #33 on: 26 September 2006, 09:12:57 »
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It is a Compaq Presario X1360US, BIOS is Hewlett-Packard 68BAL Ver. F .55

I am trying with Pro, have not been working with Home this week.

Now that I think about it, won't boot camp on my Mac install XP to an external drive?  I'll have a look at that.
i think the way boot camp works may mean it won't work on that laptop...

We may cover old ground here (some of the earlier info is not entirely clear), but does it boot using a DOS 6.22 type floppy? If no, will it boot from a bootable USB memory stick?
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Re: Do laptops burn nicely?
« Reply #34 on: 26 September 2006, 09:19:37 »
I was going to use boot camp on my Mac to install XP on the new drive for the Laptop.  However, I've looked and it won't do that.  You can install Mac OS on an external drive, but not winblows.

The USB floppy drive was not accessed during boot, so DOS 6.22 was of no use.  I haven't tried a USB stick.  I also have an SD card slot, but I don't think that it is in the boot sequence.
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Re: Do laptops burn nicely?
« Reply #35 on: 26 September 2006, 09:27:15 »
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It is a Compaq Presario X1360US, BIOS is Hewlett-Packard 68BAL Ver. F .55

I am trying with Pro, have not been working with Home this week.

Now that I think about it, won't boot camp on my Mac install XP to an external drive?  I'll have a look at that.

That BIOS will, by default, try to boot from the following:
Floppy diskette drive
Optical drive (DVD, CD-ROM)
Hard drive
USB device
Network adapter

What is the BIOS set to?
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Re: Do laptops burn nicely?
« Reply #36 on: 26 September 2006, 09:29:22 »
I put it back to default yesterday during my efforts.  Tried every setting that I can find.  Default has Network disabled.
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Re: Do laptops burn nicely?
« Reply #37 on: 26 September 2006, 09:52:10 »
Sounds like there might be more wrong with your motherboard than the USB headers.

By far the quickest and most simple way to resolve this, is to get access to a machine that will boot from a floppy disk.  Then either use a boot disk and do as I described earlier, or ..

Any of the following utilities will clone an XP disk (so long as you can boot from floppy!)

Symantec (Norton) Ghost
Acronis Disk Image
Ranish partition manager
mirays hdclone
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Re: Do laptops burn nicely?
« Reply #38 on: 26 September 2006, 10:15:24 »
Cheers for the help!  It may be a while before I get a chance to do that, but I'll keep you posted.  I tried to get a few shops to do something along those lines, and they weren't up to the task.  Oh well.
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Re: Do laptops burn nicely?
« Reply #39 on: 26 September 2006, 13:09:51 »
does the CDROM drive definitely work? If it does, in theory it would be possible to connect the notebook's hard disk to a working PC using a suitable adaptor, boot from an XP CDROM, run through setup until it reboots, then power off. Fit the hard disk to the lappy and continue setup from there. However it sounds like the laptop's system board may be FUBAR'd ....  ::)
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Re: Do laptops burn nicely?
« Reply #40 on: 26 September 2006, 13:19:56 »
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does the CDROM drive definitely work? If it does, in theory it would be possible to connect the notebook's hard disk to a working PC using a suitable adaptor, boot from an XP CDROM, run through setup until it reboots, then power off. Fit the hard disk to the lappy and continue setup from there. However it sounds like the laptop's system board may be FUBAR'd ....  ::)
CD drive works fine when it is booted up, and seeks during boot.  Even bought a second used internal CD drive and tried it.  I asked shops to do what you just described and they wouldn't?  I guess I could ask my girlfriend to let me do surgery on her laptop, but that may not go over well.  ;)
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Re: Do laptops burn nicely?
« Reply #41 on: 26 September 2006, 13:34:57 »
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does the CDROM drive definitely work? If it does, in theory it would be possible to connect the notebook's hard disk to a working PC using a suitable adaptor, boot from an XP CDROM, run through setup until it reboots, then power off. Fit the hard disk to the lappy and continue setup from there. However it sounds like the laptop's system board may be FUBAR'd ....  ::)
CD drive works fine when it is booted up, and seeks during boot.  Even bought a second used internal CD drive and tried it.  I asked shops to do what you just described and they wouldn't?  I guess I could ask my girlfriend to let me do surgery on her laptop, but that may not go over well.  ;)

I thought you had your disk drive in an external cage?  if so, just boot up the Girlfriend's laptop with a bootdisk and create an MBR on it.  No surgery needed.

If that fails or she wont let you.. I am expecting a dead laptop tomorrow for repair,  I will load up XP pro and remind myself of what options you have,  I still think you must have a BIOS problem though .. is it possible to upgrade the firmware and re-flash the BIOS on this box?
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Re: Do laptops burn nicely?
« Reply #42 on: 26 September 2006, 13:42:36 »
I upgraded the bios 6 weeks ago when trying to sort this online with Compaq.  I'd like to hear what you find out tomorrow.
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Re: Do laptops burn nicely?
« Reply #43 on: 26 September 2006, 13:42:54 »
I'll have a look myself in a bit, will connect a lappy HDD in an external box - and another drive in an external box - to a PC I've got here, then try running acronis trueimage and see if it gives me the option to copy between the two external drives ...
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Re: Do laptops burn nicely?
« Reply #44 on: 26 September 2006, 13:44:28 »
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I'll have a look myself in a bit, will connect a lappy HDD in an external box - and another drive in an external box - to a PC I've got here, then try running acronis trueimage and see if it gives me the option to copy between the two external drives ...
Cheers, or even image to the computer and then back to another external.  I sent a query to Acronis yesterday asking as much but have not heard back yet.
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