Rummy Posted September 15, 2010 Posted September 15, 2010 OK, this isn't for me, and realisticly, it might just be theoretical as my friend's netbook is actually still under warranty, but I found myself curious and finding various 'solutions' via Google so I thought I'd ask you guys if you've encountered such a problem, and your simplest solutions for it. Basically, Windows XP isn't booting on my mate's netbook, he says it freezes or bluescreens at like the windows logo loading screen. Now, in the old days, an easy option for a solution of this would be to just simply to pop your windows cd into the drive, and try using the recovery console to fix the startup files/boot sector, buuuuuuuuuut...netbooks don't tend to have cd drives! Basically, has anyone ever encountered needing to do this, and what did you do to solve it? I usually end up being tech support for people I know, and it's a problem I've yet to encounter, but expect I will one day, and it'd be something I'd hope to solve without resorting to a factory restore etc
Ten10 Posted September 15, 2010 Posted September 15, 2010 It depends really. What is the error message? Usually if it's a complaint about a missing dll, I just download it and put the file in the correct location using ubuntu live which you can run from a USB drive in the case of a netbook.
Rummy Posted September 15, 2010 Author Posted September 15, 2010 Mm, I actually have a persistant live linux distro on a usb atm(in it right now on my sister's laptop!), I keep forgetting to find out exactly what his error message is, though, and I literally saw him 10 minutes ago. I'll ask him and see. EDIT: As suspected, he says it bluescreens and restarts too fast to tell what the error is.
Konfucius Posted September 15, 2010 Posted September 15, 2010 I thinkt you can also boot Windows from a USB drive. There should be tutorials online on what to do to make it work.
Raining_again Posted September 15, 2010 Posted September 15, 2010 bluescreen is usually a hardware fault
Ten10 Posted September 15, 2010 Posted September 15, 2010 (edited) EDIT: As suspected, he says it bluescreens and restarts too fast to tell what the error is. While mashing f8 on start up is there something like an option that says halt on errors / disable automatic restart or something to that effect? Or can you not even get that far? Edit: never mind I think its a Vista / 7 only option. Edited September 15, 2010 by Ten10
gmac Posted September 19, 2010 Posted September 19, 2010 I'm pretty sure you can turn off auto restart on XP as well. I'm sure I've done it on my pc before.
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