Yay, more laptop troubles.

So I got the Recovery Disk last night from my friend.
And I just tried using it.

Do the usual, put it in Disk Drive, boot up laptop, it runs through all the setup junk and startup crap. Then prings me to a a page that just says

"Welcome to Setup. This portion ofthe setup program prepares Microsoft(R) Windows(R) XP to run on your computer.....yaddayadda"

Then I have three options,

1) To set up Windows XP now, Press Enter.

2) To repair a Windows XP installation using recovery console, press R.

3) To quit without installing Windows XP, press F3.

No matter what option I choose. I get this message

"Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed on your computer.

Make sure any hard disk drives are powered on and properly connected to your computer, and that any disk-related hardware configuration is correct. This may invole running a manufacturer-supplied diagnostic or setup program.

Setup cannot continue. To quit setup, press F3.

Sounds like your hard drive is corrupt. If you can do a full wipe and then install.

Hoes does I go about doing that?

The Plutonian wrote:Hoes does I go about doing that?

Well formating the drive will erase EVERYTHING off of it including the OS. Do you have backups of all of your data and a real copy of windows?

I never got a chance to back up my data. And the only data I really care about is my music, which is all on my Ipod 120 gig, so I can easily transfer that back over.

But what do you mean a real copy of Windows?

All I have is the recovery disk. I might have a disk for my old laptop somewhere, but I don't think so.

The Plutonian wrote:I never got a chance to back up my data. And the only data I really care about is my music, which is all on my Ipod 120 gig, so I can easily transfer that back over.

But what do you mean a real copy of Windows?

All I have is the recovery disk. I might have a disk for my old laptop somewhere, but I don't think so.

Ok what kind of laptop do you have? I need to know so I kind find how to recover without the disc since it is not working. Also recovering windows will wipe everything anyways lol.

Its a Dell HP Pavilion dv1000.

Its old, but I got it for free, and I don't have the money to buy a new one right now.

Dell HP!!??!

lol!! No, just an Hp. I was looking at the Dell logo on our desktop while typing that. My bad,

Try turning the computer off and right when you turn on the computer hit F11. Tell me if that does not work.