Bootdisk

BlueMak · Dec 17, 2006, 06:18 PM

I am looking for a bootdisk to make an XP home system that refuses to load, accessible to copy files from the mydocuments folder to a flash drive.

It is kinda urgent so if you can help please do.

[hobo]eclipse · Dec 17, 2006, 06:27 PM

did you try this, to repair the boot? i've used this method or sometimes just commands needed to fix stuff up. worked good.

BlueMak · Dec 18, 2006, 12:48 AM

I didn't try it exactly. I went there and instead tried to copy files...didn't work.
I burned a cd of Puppy linux (or something), and 2/5 times it loaded fine.
Her computer just stops loading (windows, linux, whatever) after about 10 seconds and feels usualy at the same time. Some times when turning on the PC it also makes some strange noise that feels like it originates from the power supply. Like having something on a deep frier or something, difficult to explain.
When Puppy loaded, both times when I clicked on Drives where it has all the available drives the monitor lost signal and everything paused, keyboard not active etc. The same thing that happens when Windows work and after few min.
Anyhow, managed to make Windows load one last time, transfered everything to a USB flash drive and about 30 sec after that, the same problem, lost signal to the monitor, everything froze, no keyboard nothing. I wonder if the problem is with the power supply.

Thanks for your help.

[hobo]eclipse · Dec 18, 2006, 01:37 AM

if it does it whenever you try to or just get done accessing the HDD it may be on its last legs, u have a spare drive to try to load windows on and see if it does it? is the sound mechanical? might be the head on the HDD smackin around, my aunts old hp made some horid noises on boot and drive access, i warned her and one day it just would not boot.

BlueMak · Dec 18, 2006, 03:58 AM

It doesn't make any specific weird noises. However, the second to last time it froze it was when I accidently hit, slightly, the case. Tomorrow I will open tha case and have another go, my guess is something wrong with the PSU or the HDD.

Dec 17, 2006, 06:18 PM	#1
BlueMak HH's Asteroids' Dominator Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Hellas->Macedonia->Thessaloniki Posts: 13,465 Rep Power: 349 System Specs	Bootdisk I am looking for a bootdisk to make an XP home system that refuses to load, accessible to copy files from the mydocuments folder to a flash drive. It is kinda urgent so if you can help please do. __________________ The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others(Bertrand Russell)"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. [Euripides-The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 B.C.)] http://www.macedonia.info/FALLACIESANDFACTS.htm *Sic semper tyrannis.*

Dec 18, 2006, 12:48 AM	Thread Starter #3
BlueMak HH's Asteroids' Dominator Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Hellas->Macedonia->Thessaloniki Posts: 13,465 Rep Power: 349 System Specs	I didn't try it exactly. I went there and instead tried to copy files...didn't work. I burned a cd of Puppy linux (or something), and 2/5 times it loaded fine. Her computer just stops loading (windows, linux, whatever) after about 10 seconds and feels usualy at the same time. Some times when turning on the PC it also makes some strange noise that feels like it originates from the power supply. Like having something on a deep frier or something, difficult to explain. When Puppy loaded, both times when I clicked on Drives where it has all the available drives the monitor lost signal and everything paused, keyboard not active etc. The same thing that happens when Windows work and after few min. Anyhow, managed to make Windows load one last time, transfered everything to a USB flash drive and about 30 sec after that, the same problem, lost signal to the monitor, everything froze, no keyboard nothing. I wonder if the problem is with the power supply. Thanks for your help. __________________ The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others(Bertrand Russell)"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. [Euripides-The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 B.C.)] http://www.macedonia.info/FALLACIESANDFACTS.htm *Sic semper tyrannis.*

Dec 18, 2006, 03:58 AM	Thread Starter #5
BlueMak HH's Asteroids' Dominator Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Hellas->Macedonia->Thessaloniki Posts: 13,465 Rep Power: 349 System Specs	It doesn't make any specific weird noises. However, the second to last time it froze it was when I accidently hit, slightly, the case. Tomorrow I will open tha case and have another go, my guess is something wrong with the PSU or the HDD. __________________ The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others(Bertrand Russell)"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. [Euripides-The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 B.C.)] http://www.macedonia.info/FALLACIESANDFACTS.htm *Sic semper tyrannis.*

Dec 17, 2006, 06:27 PM	#2
[hobo]eclipse ...just bummin 'round Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 2,907 Rep Power: 112 System Specs	did you try this, to repair the boot? i've used this method or sometimes just commands needed to fix stuff up. worked good.

Dec 18, 2006, 01:37 AM	#4
[hobo]eclipse ...just bummin 'round Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 2,907 Rep Power: 112 System Specs	if it does it whenever you try to or just get done accessing the HDD it may be on its last legs, u have a spare drive to try to load windows on and see if it does it? is the sound mechanical? might be the head on the HDD smackin around, my aunts old hp made some horid noises on boot and drive access, i warned her and one day it just would not boot.