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Does this sound like a failed Hard Drive?

Posted on August 4, 2010 by admin| 1 Comment

The computer used to boot up and work, but after a few minutes it would crash and give the blue screen of death. I thought maybe the OS had become corrupted so I deleted the current partition and created a new one so that I could reinstall Windows. However it crashed several times during the OS setup and never finished installing.

I tried using a Linux Live CD (which loads entirely into ram) and it ran fine for hours, it never crashed. I finally tried installing Linux onto the harddrive but it failed as well, now the partition editor in Linux doesn’t even recognize the HD device.

Does this situation sound like a HD failure? A while back I thought it could possibly be the power-supply but now I’m leaning towards the HD. The computer is an EMachine Desktop, bought in 2005.

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Blue screen of death windows?

Posted on July 30, 2010 by admin| 5 Comments

My girlfriend got a vaio laptop about 2 years ago. She had vista home premium on it. She had an auto update downloading and the computer shut off. This completely fried it as vista wouldnt boot, it would go to a black screen with a workable mouse. I tried to reinstall it but something keeps happening. I pop in the CD and push the button to boot from it. In that classic blue screen you used to see on ancient computers where it loads all the files, it is supposed to start up an installation process. Instead, it goes straight to the BSOD (blue screen of death) saying windows shut down to prevent damage to your computer blah blah blah. At first i thought maybe i did something wrong like the wrong OS. I had a 32bit OS and thought maybe hers is 64 bit. However this was not the problem as the same result happened. I live booted linux and completely formatted the partition so its completely blank. The same problem occurred with the BSOD. Does anyone know how i can solve this problem and reinstall the computer? I have CD’s with different OS’s on them and obtaining a certain OS isnt a problem. So please if you can help. Respond in as much detail as you can.

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Help installing Windows XP sp2.?

Posted on July 22, 2010 by admin| 1 Comment

Alright, I need to reinstall Windows XP sp2 I’ve got a os recovery disk from dell, when I try to install it everything goes fine until a few minutes after the restart. Then It tell me to insert the disk containing “Microsoft UAA Bus Driver for High Definition Audio Installation” I’m pretty sure It should be on the os recovery disk so when I put it back in It tells me to locate the driver “hdaudbus.sys”, but my keyboard and mouse go dead. What should I do, It’s my only computer and now I’m running it on a a linux ubuntu live CD and I need Windows back up. PLEASE HELP ME!!!

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How do should I install linux?

Posted on July 10, 2010 by admin| 2 Comments

I want to reinstall my windows and then do a dual boot with linux on my laptop. How should I do this? Should I reinstall windows first and then install linux? Or will installing ubuntu linux via the live CD reformart the windows partition for me? Also how do I dual install linux? Do I have to partition my HD first or can I just pop in the live CD and follow the prompts?

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Problem booting linux after Win reinstall?

Posted on July 9, 2010 by admin| 2 Comments

I had my machine set up to dual boot (Ubuntu 8.10, and Windows XP) and I recently re-installed Windows XP.

XP Wiped out my bootloader and made my linux partition almost a waste of space. I can access all of my files/folders from my Ubuntu Live CD, but I want my boot loader back.

I have no idea what to do, as I am really bad with this sort of thing. Oh and I DO NOT have a floppy drive, if it matters.

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