Posts by ReverbReverse

I pressed all sorts of F keys - can't swear I tried that one, but if I did, then it didn't work... thank you anyway .. but sys files were foobared so maybe that's why it didn't work ?

Guys at the shop reinstalled windows XP from their own set of cds, and I had them doing on the new HD rather than on the old one. It's as if i would not even have stood a chance, if, as they tell, my recovery cds were bad to begin with....

Quote: Originally Posted by kos Hi, Not sure if this problem has been resolved but if the objective is to transfer contents of one hard disk to a new (ang bigger hard disk), I've read in another forum about a software...

Quote: Originally Posted by Djembe if the hidden partition has a file system that Windows recognizes, you should just be able to assign it a drive letter via Disk Management. I hear you, but the question is :...

Quote: Originally Posted by Djembe One way to do it would be to first burn and boot from a Linux LiveCD. When you're in the OS, you should have access to the hidden partition. Then take a USB flash drive big enough to...

I tried formatting it as an external drive, through another computer. If by "through the XP installer", you mean, "in the process of getting XP reinstalled on the new drive", it doesn't offer me the option to do it,...

New here, so hi everybody.. I ran into some trouble the other day with my notebook - after the touchpad stopped working, I rebooted many times (moving around with the tab key etc. into the settings etc.) with no success, until...