Re: Unable to restore from recovery partition


On Sep 14, 3:35 pm, Ben Myers <ben_myers_spam_me_...@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
A couple of comments:

I suspect that either your Dell "Reinstallation CD" or the optical drive in your
2650 is defective. The 2650 does know how to boot from a CD. I have serviced
them and refurbished them. Good thing, too, 'cause it's not easy to start an XP
install from floppy. In fact, I have never seen XP boot floppies. But they may
exist.

Yes it knows how, but I have read that the feature is often disabled
and must be re-enabled to boot from the CD-Rom. The instructions
have found say to boot using six setup floppies downloaded
from microsoft and then use the recovery console to enable
booting from the cd-rom.

I've gotten as far as booting off of the floppies and running the
recovery console but the instructions do not say _HOW_ to use
the recovery console to enable booting from the CD-Rom.

That is why I went on to try to open the case and remove the
battery from the Motherboard.

Since I can explore a CD on other computers (indeed when I load
it it wants to install right away) I figure the CD is OK.

Device manager tells me the CD-Rom is working properly.
I can disable and re-enable, uninstall and reinstall it, but I
can no longer read a CD with it. When I put in a CD
a little spinning disc appears on the cursor and I can
eject it by right clicking on the CD icon and choosing eject.

At startup in safe mode there is a message that some hardware
will not work in safe mode. I do not know if it is normal for the
CD-rom to work in safe mode or not. Since I can no longer
boot except in safe mode, I do not know if the CD-Rom
works in normal windows.

In recovery console, what does the command:

bootcfg /redirect useBiosSettings

do?

That sounds like it may be what I need to do.

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FF

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