Hi, I was reinstalling my girls old toshiba a60-106 laptop, and it now wont boot, please help, the xp install did not complete, now the cdrom drive wont see a bootable disk (original xppro cd), the failed os boots in safe mode till vgaoem.fon then halts, no matter what i try i cant get it to recover. please help...
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Hi, looks like you will need to format your hard drive and reinstall windows.
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To install new version of XP. Insert XP CD into drive,
reboot pc pressing F1 button.. This takes you into BIOS, change your primary
boot device to CDrom, save changes and reboot. Select boot from CD once this
appears and wait for files to be installed. Select the part of the hard drive
you wish to use for your operating system (usually the largest) and select
partition this drive. Delete any previous os, and reformat hard drive. (Be
aware this removes everything saved on your hard drive, so always back up
first) Re boot afterwards and reinstall operating system. Hope this helps
Hi, not sure what you meen here i.e completely reinstall or repair? But here is to reinstall, let me know if you wish to repair!
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To install new version of XP. Insert XP CD into drive,
reboot pc pressing ESC button, or delete in
some machines. This takes you into BIOS, change your primary boot device to
CDrom, save changes and reboot. Select boot from CD once this appears and wait
for files to be installed. Select the part of the hard drive you wish to use
for your operating system (usually the largest) and select partition this
drive. Delete any previous os, and reformat hard drive. (Be aware this removes
everything saved on your hard drive, so always back up first) Re boot
afterwards and reinstall operating system. Hope this helps
Hi, you will have to change the boot sequenc.when you turn on watch the screen and you will see very quickly to press F2 or a different key to go into the bios. I think it is on the first screen to change the sequence - Boot from cdrom then hard drive. Then insert your dvd and install, if you need more help, please ask.
Hi, Caution: formatting the will lead you to loose all the data on your computer. To format the drive you need to boot from the cdrom/dvd drive to boot from the cdrom/dvd drive you will need to chnage the boot sequence you will need to tap the F2 key at the toshiba logo and here you can change the boot sequence or try tapping the F12 key at the toshiba screen to enter one time boot menu here you can select the drive you want to boot from for one time only and to reinstall windows here is one helpfulll ink http://www.windowsreinstall.com/
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1.If you purchase an external USB CD drive you will not need to use your floppy discs for booting. 2. You can connect a USB CD drive to your system. 3. Your system will recognize any device plugged into your USB drive. 4. There is no CD drive available for internal installation in your computer. 5. With the USB CD drive plugged in and the windows installation disc inserted, your computer should take you through the setup program automatically.
As the pc is booting press F2 or Del (dependant on bios) and enter bios set up. Choose to make your cdrom as first boot device, save settings and exit bios.
Insert cd drive before the boot up starts and there will be a screen prompt to "press enter to boot from cd", press enter and then the cdrom will go to the next step, asking press 'R' to repair or press 'Enter' to format and install windows, choose repair if you have documents you need on your pc.
The system will then go through a full repair installation, when complete your system will be repaired and everything should be as before with nothing lost.
You may have a faulty hard drive so if you cannot get windows to repair it will tell you theres no drive found.
You cannot uninstall Windows Vista, but you can reinstall your previous operating system, which then replaces Windows Vista. To reinstall your old operating system, you must have the original installation disc. Back up your programs and files, insert the installation disc into your computer, and then reinstall the old operating system. To regain the hard disk space used by Windows Vista, reformat the disk during the reinstallation process. After reinstalling your previous operating system, reinstall your programs and files.
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