Hi. Tricky one this... I recently had my laptops hard drive fail miserably to the extent of it being totally unusable or fixable. I got a new hard drive for the laptop but every time I try to install windows back onto it it doesn't get very far before the dreaded blue screen appears that says all manner of stuff about needing to shut down. I have wiped the hard drive and started from scratch a number of times and still I can't make it work. Are there any theories out there as to why this might be? It is an old laptop but other than the hard drive there isn't any other issues. Thanks
2007-02-22 03:44:20 · 10 answers · asked by jeremy 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
It is old but not that old. It previously had xp on it so it is not a minimum requirements issue. The version I am installing is the full version as the hard drive is new. I have reformatted a number of times to start from scratch each time I attempt to install.
2007-02-22 03:53:43 · update #1
I have installed windows before on systems. So I know how to install from a disk. My problem is that the installation crashes out late in the install every time.
2007-02-22 07:59:33 · update #2
The laptop is an AMD Athlon i think just over 1ghz processor. It's about 3 years old now. 512mb Ram. Yes the hard drive is partitioned and I have re-partitioned it each time the install has failed to try and clean the drive and start from scratch. I can get on the BIOS yes. Could be an issue within that maybe?
2007-02-22 08:03:14 · update #3
you say it is old, are you installing xp? look at the min requirements needed for xp and see if your laptop matches that
2007-02-22 03:50:33 · answer #1 · answered by Taffy Comp Geek 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well it could be your copy of Windows if its XP maybe get Vista Home Basic as its very similar but it requires a newer machine. I would reccomend trying another persons copy of Windows if you can or if not try Ubuntu or Kubuntu which will allow you time to try and fix it.
Ubuntu/Kubutu are free linux operating systems that can run from a live cd. so Just download either kubuntu (is a bit heavier on RAM than ubuntu) or ubuntu (uses very little RAM) and put it in your laptop press F12 on boot up (key may vary) and you can choose what to start up from choose the disc drive and you can go online and do everything in Windows but better and you dont need an antivirus or firewall as its got very few or no viruses for it.
You could do this and try and solve the problem and then re-format your Hard drive and if you wish reinstall Windows.
To download ubuntu or kubuntu just search them in google and find the download area.
I hope this helps.
2007-02-22 03:52:41 · answer #2 · answered by sbraidley 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The issue I saw with an Athlon 64 a few times is they have issues with SP2 XP installs. So if the disk you use is SP2 then it does not load and locks up or crashes. Use Memtest to also check your memory to make usre it is good.
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2007-02-26 11:39:11 · answer #3 · answered by sellingcomputerstuff 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did you format the hard drive before installing Windows? How old is the laptop and which version of Windows are you installing? Is it an upgrade version or a full version?
2007-02-22 03:49:53 · answer #4 · answered by chitownbarb 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hi
i had a similar problem with a dell laptop it turned out to be that my copy of xp was the old sp1 version
the laptop i was trying to install xp on needed sp2 installed to operate drivers and such
so each time i tried to install the old sp1 version it would go blue screen on me when it came to final restart most annoying as it all seemed ok up to then
maybee you have a similar problem
get the latest version xp with sp2 in and try it worked for me and get all the correct drivers for the laptop as well
2007-02-22 12:03:42 · answer #5 · answered by steve50 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
put your xp disk into the drive, restart laptop, does a message appear in top left corner saying 'press any key to boot from disk'.
if does not appear then restart laptop and during bootup press either delete or f12 to get into the bios then goto bootup devices, and make sure that your cdrom is the first bootup device then press f10 to save and exit.
only press the any key once do not press it again when it comes up just let windows run and follow the instructions
2007-02-22 07:56:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you're able to set up Xp and delete vista. only be careful or a minimum of study your laptops drivers first. difficult drivers to get are NIC/wifi/multiport. in case you have an XP OEM license from yet another pc, its no longer meant to have the means to be transferred to a various pc. basically retail can do this. Wont harm to aim nonetheless. Please be advantageous to create restoration discs out of your vista nonetheless. maximum laptops do no longer incorporate restoration discs and only furnish a restoration partition and the means to make restoration discs.
2016-11-24 23:56:01 · answer #7 · answered by rasavong 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
jeremy,
What error message are you getting exactly? Also, what is on the hard drive itself? Is it partitioned? Can you get into your BIOS? What kind of laptop is it and how old?
2007-02-22 03:52:03 · answer #8 · answered by Angie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if the install kraps out right away I would say that you got a faulty HD... if it kraps out sometime into the install it could be an incompatability issue with some type of hardware... its reaslly hard to say... maybe your install CD is scratched/scuffed
...just some thoughts
2007-02-22 03:50:41 · answer #9 · answered by bigstep_70 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
try bios cache file that might be corrupt OK
2007-03-01 10:39:04 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋