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Re: Do laptops burn nicely?
« Reply #75 on: 28 September 2006, 00:13:28 »
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He might well take you up on your offer, i know he wants it fixed and doesn't want to be beaten either, especially as he's had it at several shops who couldn't help.

Plus, he is kinda stubborn.  ;D
Who me?  ::)

Tried 2 CD's that boot in other machines, and tried swapping out the CD drive.  Tried to get shops to do workarounds that I knew would work, but all they wanted to do was spend time trying to fix the laptop not booting from CD.  Don't need the CD fixed, need HD bootable.
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Re: Do laptops burn nicely?
« Reply #76 on: 28 September 2006, 00:38:42 »
well trueimage would do the job as it copies the data rather than the hard disc sectors, so as long as there's enough room to fit the data onto the new drive then it'll be OK.

However if you have any doubts as to the integrity of the Windoze installation, I'd wholeheartedly go with TheBoy's recommendation of wiping the slate clean and doing a clean install if at all possible. At least then you know where you stand and it's hopefully on solid ground !! If Windoze is corrupt you're onto a loser from the outset ...
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Re: Do laptops burn nicely?
« Reply #77 on: 01 October 2006, 10:59:25 »
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Theo,  

What is the status of this?

Have you been able to use your Girlfriends laptop to create an MBR or are you going to take up Theboy's offer to run through the text install on his?

Allen,

TheBoy tried the text install yesterday, but when we put the drive into my laptop we just got a blinking cursor.  He also went through the BIOS and some other stuff with no luck, including trying his install CD.

Now where did I put that lighter fluid . . .  >:( ;)
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Re: Do laptops burn nicely?
« Reply #78 on: 01 October 2006, 12:05:40 »
Definately something odd with that one.  Simply, whatever you tell it to do, it will only boot from HDD.  And the original HDD is knackered...

And even putting on a boot sector and install files, it won't have any of it.

Given enough time, I reckon I may be able to resolve it.

Maybe theolodian will flog it to me cheap  ;D
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Re: Do laptops burn nicely?
« Reply #79 on: 01 October 2006, 12:27:17 »
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Definately something odd with that one.  Simply, whatever you tell it to do, it will only boot from HDD.  And the original HDD is knackered...

And even putting on a boot sector and install files, it won't have any of it.

Given enough time, I reckon I may be able to resolve it.

Maybe theolodian will flog it to me cheap  ;D
Why do YOU want it?  :o  ;D
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Re: Do laptops burn nicely?
« Reply #80 on: 01 October 2006, 12:41:21 »
given time I reckon I can fix.  And I don't want to be beaten by it.
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Re: Do laptops burn nicely?
« Reply #81 on: 01 October 2006, 13:14:02 »
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given time I reckon I can fix.  And I don't want to be beaten by it.
Yeah, that last part is why it has me so steamed!  >:(
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