Re: Making an XP-Pro CD to use on a Dell laptop
- From: Robert M Jones <robert53newsgroups-bty2@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 10:29:16 +0000
Turps wrote:
Robert M Jones wrote on 16/03/2007 23:29:33:Fixer wrote:The chances are it will not come with anything, no recovery partition as this was not implemented on the D600 range. If anything it will come with a Dell XP disk, which is a full blown OEM copy of windows XP which will not need to be activated as it is BIOS dependant ie if you install it on any dell there is no need to activate, if you install it on any other manufactures machine you will need to activate and have a COA to do so. IF it does not come with a Dell XP disk then you can buy one on Ebay or if you contact me I can supply you with one. aniother thing you will also have to go onto dells website and down load all the nessesary drivers especially the chipset drivers to enable full functionality . You must install these chipset drivers 1st
Well my refurbished laptop finally arrived
Latitude D600
- no recovery disk and no recovery partition AFAICS, and no media.
I'm working on making a Ghost image after setting it up - but its a tedious business getting the ghost working. I had hoped to use the network to save an image file to a partition on my desktop but can't get the hang of how Ghost networks - only offers peer to peer usb or TCP - does that mean I have to connect the two machines via usb?
I'm also wondering how I can make a bootable CD with Ghost on it as there is no floppy drive and the Ghost programme does not seem to have an option for making a CD bootable except by copying DOS off from a floppy! So even if I get my image made on CDs, at the moment I can't see how I could restore it should the computer not be booting properly from the HDD - the PCDOS version of Ghost at the moment is running from the HDD - so if a worst case crash occurred and the HDD wasn't booting, I'm not sure I could restore the image.
I can use other bootable CD's I suppose - but Ghost will make a bootable floppy (but I haven't a floppy drive) or make a bootable CD as long as I can supply a bootable floppy for it to copy - but I haven't a floppy drive. Do I have to load an "image" of a floppy from the net and use that?
I've been to the Dell site and downloaded everything listed for that make of machine and put that on a CD - all in the form of compressed files. If I needed to use those (worst case scenario of an OS reinstall) how would I do that?
Many thanks for the interest - this is all a steep learning curve for me.
Robert
I have a similar job to do on a new Lenovo 3000 C200 with WXPP (I decided against your Dell due overheating reports). CD/DVD RW, no floppy. When I first boot it I plan to go straight to the BIOS and check that it is set to try and boot from the CD before the HD, and then switch it off. I will then make a bing bootable CD. Boot from the bing CD and see what's on the HD. Then I may resize C: and make a D:. Then image the C: into the D:. Fire up Windows and burn the image from D: to the CD(s). (This technique I use frequently on my desktops using an installed bing). I will have to re-study bing in detail from scratch using the latest version when I make the bing CD. I have never used bing to image straight to a CD using bing's burning capabilities, and wonder if with one CD drive one can remove the bing CD to burn to another CD. I have other complications in that when I first use Windows on this machine; it will apparently complete Windows setup (users etc I assume). It has a button to go into a help system which may let me create CDs of my system and the backup partition which I believe exists.
On the Terabyte newsgroup there are some threads about this area worthy of study.
Hope this may help a bit. I haven't time to go into detail yet. We got a 3rd dog, a young rescued labrador to exercise us into our 80s as our 2 old labs were too slow. Then my wife broke her leg and is in plaster. I have lost 12 lb trying to keep up. Spending many hours in the study with my computers is not on at the moment!
Turps
Many thanks - I am also considering something similar - once I get the ghost cd's burned as an initial stopgap, I am going to have a look at what I can do with BootItNG - like you I would really like to divide the HDD into 2 and then be able to Ghost image from one partition to the other. Then I just have image files which I can move around and burn to CD's or even tranfer over the network to spare HDD space on my desktop - like you that is the method I use on my own desktop.
Thanks for the reminder about Terrabyte forums - I'll have a look. Daughter will want laptop soon to write essays (that's what she says anyway) - at the moment she survives on a very old Win 95 box.
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