Laptop don't boot
Protagonist' You worry too much! So far, all the advice you gave me, is like from a 5 year. Why do you think my...
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Protagonist' Thx Guys, got WinXP boot up for a while. Simple! Using recovery boot disk, than Chkdskr. It fixes bad sectors-volum. I say while, because it was very slow to boot after error checking...
I just installed a new sound blaster card. I can play system sounds, but otherwise I have no sound. My desktop speakers are plugged into jacks on the back of the card...
Nice going. welcome back.
The HP CD's you have - do they use-buttume a D parbreastion on your system ? Recovery CD's or Install CD's - Do you know ? Just curious as I'm looking at an HP laptop and wondering what they come with.
Did you notice the summary report - what did it find bad ? If you haven't yet, just go into DOS and do a chkdsk ( no switches) to get a summary. See how many bad blocks now. As for pagefile being corrupt ... If nothing else, change the size of your pagefile.sys to a minimum temporarily. That will free up most of the space (So if it's currently auto or custom, e.g. min=512mb -- change it to 10mb or "none" and reboot) Note it might take a long time to get going, but it's only for a few minutes. Once booted now that "bad spot" is available to be captured as a smaller chunk rather than the 512 mb file it might be otherwise. So only " wasting" maybe 8-10mb (rather than all 512)
To get to pagefile settings, control panel - system-adv- performance - advanced - change. Pick the drive and choose Custom ( or none). Now reboot and rerun chkdsk ( with switches you used) and hopefully it will find only a few bad blocks - allowing you to use the rest ( of the 512 mb in my example). After that THEN change it back to auto or custom
After it's all backed up and BEFORE your restore..... The Compaq's used to format the drive-parbreastion as part of the complete restore - does anyone know if HP restore does ? If not sure, I'd recommend formatting the drive to identify all the bad blocks prior to the HP CD's.
Good luck.