Michael, i have a burnt Windows XP Home CD due to the fact that mine actually snapped
As long as you use the officially licensed product key, it is legal, i can post it if you like as i no longer have a need for it. An OEM copy of XP will work, its just a case of having the drivers. If it has a SATA harddrive you may need to include the correct SATA drivers onto the disk before installation. Dan On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Rob Beard <[email protected]> wrote: > On 04/06/10 19:11, Michael G Fletcher wrote: >>> What make is his laptop? >>> >>> Rob >> >> A Dell Inspiron 6000... trying to save his 38GB of music :-( >> >> I got it to the point where it loads the Welcome screen, but when I >> logon the user, it just automatically logs me out again. I can get >> into the safe-mode with command prompt, and tried to install SP3, but >> doesn't seem to want to install! >> >> Michael >> > > You'll probably find that a standard Windows XP CD won't work (that is, > an OEM copy of Windows XP). You'll need a specific Dell version which > is tied to the Dell BIOS (funnily enough doing it this way any Dell > Windows XP CD should work). If you e-mail me off list I might possibly > be able to help. > > In the mean time, if he hasn't got an external hard drive, I'd suggest > he gets one (I bought a 1TB Western Digital USB 2 hard drive yesterday > from PC World for £60 using their collect from store option when > reserving it on the web site). Then try booting from an Ubuntu CD and > you should be able to mount his hard drive and copy any data, pictures, > music etc off the drive. At least that way his data is backed up. > > Then TBH I'd suggest maybe wiping the lot and starting from scratch. > I've done repair installs of Windows before but they've never really > worked that well. > > Rob > > -- > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
