My system ( Acer laptop aspire 5570) windows xp, service pack 2 or 3 i think, is not booting even from safemode either normally. I dont have a recovery disk or a operating system disk.It was asking press F1 to proceed and when pressing F1 its going to some errors and all. I need to copy the contents from my pc, or i need to re install if nothing possible then to format. how can i make an operating system? can i make it in USB? Please give me an answer as its very imminent…John

Hey, I have a Windows XP Media Center Edition Version 2002 Service Pack 2. And I want to reset it to factory settings so that EVERYTHING is gone.. And what I mean is like when you first buy your computer, there is nothing downloaded besides what you start out with… Anyone know how I can do this? Also, my PC didn’t come with recovery disks’, and I was wondering if I can burn the recovery disk onto a CD. If you need any other questions, please Email me.

Thanks,
Danny

I downloaded the Service Pack 3 to upgrade my computer (wasnt my idea..) and after it finished it messed up my computer..The first message stated my Boot.ini file was invalid..I eventunally gained access to my computer and tried to fix it..( at the time i didnt have my recovery disk) Then it failed..and said System32\hal.dll was missing or corrupt and to reinstall the file..I finally got a recovery disk..and I did lots of commands..Including..
Bootfix then cfg..and rebuilding..
System32\hal.dll expanding..
And lots of other various but similar commands..
I created a new patrition..with the recovery..It goes up to load to the LOGO screen..and then the logo disappears and the screen stays on but black..Im not sure what else to try for repairing..Could someone please help me

i have a Windows Xp Professional..Laptop

Hi, recently, I formatted my entire computer. It used to be a Windows Vista system, but I used an E-Machines recovery disk to use Windows XP. My computer isn’t an E-Machine computer, but Acer.

After formatting everything and installing XP, everything worked fine, except sound. My speakers used to work but now doesn’t. I have tried using just headphones and that doesn’t work either, which points to a computer problem. Then I looked, there isn’t even a volume control and when I tried to go to volume control a pop up says "no audio mixer is installed" or something to that effect.

I tried going to control panel but under sound and audio device, it says I have no device installed despite me having my speakers connected as usual. I tried going to Device Manager but it has a few things with a yellow question mark beside it such as "Ethernet Controller", and "PCI Device" (?).

Computer: Acer Aspire AST 180
Operating System: Windows XP Service Pack 2 (from an E-Machines recovery disk)
Speakers: Insignia 2.0

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

everything stopped working. i had windows xp. i put in the recovery disk and still nothing worked. for a few days it was down. hated that. a friend came over and installed windows 2000, but things aren’t working right. i can’t stay hooked up to msn. and the color is horrible. it has only 16 whatevers. my pictures are mostly a blur. iv’e tried to download the service packs 1,2 and 3 but that does’t happen either. i have dsl. now win 2000, explorer 6 . is there any way to get better color and to keep the internet going? thank you thank you

I’m not racist, let’s get that clear, but I have been on the phone for THREE hours telling this moron the same thing over and over again, I have a HP Pavillion Slimline PC and I upgraded to Vista, I decided I didn’t like it, and wanted to go back to Windows XP Media Center Edition, and the recovery partition got deleted by Vista, and the Recovery Disk that I ordered doesn’t work…. They keep tellign me to order recovery disk, I have them in my hands!!! WHY DO COMPANIES BASE THEIR MOST POPULAR NUMBERS (CUSTOMER SERVICE PLACES) OVER SEAS!! I know to save money but your on the phone twice as long, which makes the bills about the same as a shorter call within the US…. AHHH!!

So a few days ago, my Acer Laptop crashed and was giving me a message saying "Media test failure, check cable" and would not load Windows (XP) at all. I tried to reformat the HD…same problem occured. So I had an old HD from another laptop that I tried out to see if the HD was bad. I was able to load, but a day or so later it blue screened saying something about "win32k" (the blue screen rebooted too quickly for me to get the rest). So, assuming my problem with a HD prob, I went out and got a completely brand new HD and attempted to reimage using my recovery disk. When loading windows an error appeared saying something about a IE file being "corrupt and unreadable" and to "run disk check utility." I did and it "truncated" several files, but everything was running fine. I loaded everything again and within a few minutes of installing service pack 3, i got another blue screen. disk check found two "invalid" files. Can someone help please?! I’m desperate! Thanks!

Microsoft Windows XP
Home Edition
Version 2002
Service Pack 3

(according to the disk case)
Microsoft Office 2000 Professional
Double CD
Purchased and installed In-Store

After getting a virus, we had to do a "destructive reboot" of our Windows system using HP recovery console. In essence, what it did was delete all our files (which were backed up before we got the virus… don’t worry) so the virus went away, but left the programs on our computer intact.

Mostly.

Big, expensive programs such as Microsoft Office and Norton Anti virus decided they had just been installed and needed a product key. With Norton it was not a huge problem; we had done this once before and all we had to do was ask a chat technician to help us fix it. They uninstalled it and re-installed it, but they could do that because they had a record of our product purchase. The first time this happened with Office, it simply fixed itself after a few days.

Microsoft Office does not offer very convenient help. For one thing, the only advice I found on their site for our version of Office was this: "We may not offer free support for your Office Program any more, but if you buy Office 2007 here…." ugh.
I need to figure out how to re-activate my Office Suite without buying another product activation key.

I considered uninstalling and re-installing, but I have tried to use my product activation key without doing so and it said the key was invalid. I am afraid if I uninstall it it will simply mean the computer will lose record of our purchase and when I re-install the program the key will have already been used once and won’t work.

Even an email address or other Microsoft contact information that will get me support from them would be helpful. As a last resort we could take it to the place that installed it for us ( a Circuit City) but I think they were closed down last year.

I can not tell you how much I will appreciate answers from people who know what they are talking about. I have searched the web for an answer to this problem for most of the day.
Unfortunately, there is no phone number on our disk case. In fact there is very little on it except a website and a notation saying there is a holographic image embedded in the genuine disks. Thanks for the answer, though! If anyone has their office disk handy I would love to get a phone number.

s there a way that i can make a windows xp service pack 2 recovery disk. I have imgburn to burn a cd. I tried to burn a vista cd and got these results boot, sources, support(which is kind of faded)in the
/boot\ folder i have bcd, boot.sdi, bootfix
/sources\ i have boot.wim
/support\ logging which has nothing also in the folder i have bootmgr

when i try to reboot it to vista nothing happens when i restart.

*by the way i don’t have an original copy of the xp cd*

I called the tech department and since it was out of warranty, all they could do was send me the recovery disks. I installed the recovery disk, then when I inserted the first of 5 disks to restore the devices/drivers, I got an error message stating:
error copying file D:\RECOVERY\BKD021A.IM2.Error 23ata error (cyclic

redundancy check).

;

My disks loaded, but I am missing lots of stuff - like sound, wireless capability, ability to play DVDs etc. I tried reloading it and now it just keeps recycling through the restoration cycle, but I cannot sign on to Windows. Can anyone help? I can’t believe that Lenovo doesn’t have better service than this.
My OS is Windows XP and the model number is 8922-2FU (3000 serious laptop) Hope this helps!

My comp is trying to reconfigure my audio driver because for some reason it stopped working and i dont have the software recovery disk and i cant find any drivers for my particular model. I use a Sony Vaio PCG-7R2L with windows xp service pack 2. Any help in finding either my audio driver or the SigmaTel High Definition Audio Driver would be greatly appreciated.
i have found no help on sony’s website

I have System Recovery Disk for Latitude D600 laptop. Can I use this disk to restore another Latitude D600 with different service tag? If yes, what happens to the Windows XP CD-Key license? Is the CD-Key associated with any Recovery disk? If not what CD-Key will show up after recovery?

Many thanks

My computer has Windows XP pro Service Pack 2. I want to wipe all the programs off of it. Every guide i look at says I need the program "Backup" under System Tools on the Start Menu. But it’s not there.

I can’t get the recovery disk, because those people at the Geek Squad want me to pay about 0 for it, so is there anyway I can DOWNLOAD it, put it on a floppy, and then use it?

Now, when I stick a CD in, a green light will appear for a few seconds. Then, it disappears with nothing else happening. Will a system recovery help? I use Windows XP, service pack 3. Is this enough information?

I had a lot of family pictures,job documents and music,the hard drive was formatted because it crashed so had windows xp installed again,(i had XP previously). I have not used it since,Is there a software i can use to recover all my data,or it cannot be recovered once it is formatted ?

i recently used the AVG anti-virus software to scan my computer, it found six threats in the window files and it automatically deleted them. but immediately the computer showed a warning saying that important files have been changed and the computer cannot run properly without them. i didn’t dare to close the computer incase it doesn’t open again, are there any good softwares i can download to recover those files??? or any other easy ways to put those deleted files back? i don’t have the windows XP pack.

I have a sony Vaio, which never came with an installation disk.
I just had to have my western digital hard drive replaced by warranty.
My vaio recovery disks will not work this time around due to a bigger hard drive, but they did originally in 2008.
Being told motherboard may be dead, but bios runs fine.
Where can I get a windows XP installation cd, as I have a valid key code on my laptop, but sony offers no free service

Im buying a set of windows vista recovery CD’s on Craigslist for , now, will this install the whole OS on my computer? im currently running a HP Comaq dc5100 1GB ram 80GBHDD and have Windows XP on it.

I don’t want to use those expensive third party recovery programs. I know some people create system recovery programs by using the basic windows xp programs, not the third party utility programs. I don’t want to use system restore. I only want to create a system recovery disc by using the basic windows xp program. So, can anyone please tell me how?

When I click Start>Control Panel>User Accounts>"My Account">Prevent a
forgotten password an error message pops up that says:
No Drive
Your computer does not have a removable disk drive. A removable medium is
required to use this feature.

I though in order to create a password reset disk all you need is a blank cd
and a cd burner? My computer has that (Compaq Presario V2000). Since this
isnt working, is there another way to create a Password Reset Disk?
Much appreciation if any Answers!

P.S, My computers specs if needed:
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Version 2002 Service Pack 2 Compaq
Presario V2000
***If I need a floppy disk than is there another way to create the recovery disk?***

Because my computer is corrupted with these symptoms
-when I insert my windows xp installation cd,it says ‘invalid boot.ini file and then <windows root>\system32.hal.dll is corrupted.
-can not boot to normal windows back
-keeps restarting
-I went into the BIOS of my computer and enable the boot from CD option but still can not read my windows xp installation disc

I had to use HP recovery to rid my computer of a small virus. (It’s a long process but it works.) When it came back on things were wrong.

First: My speakers do not work. I’ve checked device manager and the connection but nothing.

Second, and this is the big one: I have to download Windows XP Service Pack 2, at least I think I do, to re-install my iTunes. But it won’t let me because I don’t seem to have enough space. When I try to click on Disk Cleanup, it won’t open. Sometimes it pops up when I try to download Windows XP SP2, but it won’t load. Someone help!
But you guys, The speakers didn’t come with the comp. Though they did work fine before I activated HP Recovery.

I think I have 2 Windows XP Home OS in my computer. I need to delete the bad one.

My Windows XP Home would not run after I had loaded a PC game, and I used my CD Recovery disk. During the reload process, the program would not accept the license key saying it is not valid. However, I managed to complete the recovery process. Now, at start-up a DOS display is asking to select one of the same Windows XP Home editions listed. I selected the first one (done by the recovery). My Windows XP works but now I always get a message saying Windows is not genuine and that I must activate it (and I have x-number of days to do it). I think, somehow, the earlier defective Windows was not deleted (license key still active) when the C-drive was reformatted and now I have 2 instances of Windows XP Home in my computer. How do I delete the bad OS, and so I can use my license key again? Or, do I have a different problem?

I have a HP Pavilion 514a desktop PC (Australian version) and ages ago when I got it, I attempted to create a set of backup CD’s. This failed at disk 8 / 9 and because HP only allow for you to have one shot at this, I could no longer attempt to create the rest. I want this image back on this PC, as I have been using just normal Windows XP for a while, but prefer HP’s image (the software and stuff). I have deleted the recovery Partition, so there’s no hope in recovering that at all, and I have attempted to use the CD’s, but as soon as it finishes disk #8, it asks me for disk #9, which I evidently don’t have. This is disheartening as I only need that last CD to complete the recovery process. So my question is, can anyone point me to a download link for the recovery CD set for this PC, or could anyone tell me a solution to bypass this final CD check (it would be incomplete, but it’d be better than nothing). Please, I was really looking forward to having this old image on (I THINK it was Windows XP Home, Service Pack 1a, but I’m not sure). Thanks for any help in advance, and sorry for such a long question. Have a nice day guys. =)

I just got a used Compaq Evo laptop running windows XP pro. It did NOT come with an OS cd or recovery cd. I do have XP Home recovery CDs for my Sony Vaio, but they dont seem to register with the Compaq.

I attempted to update from the vanilla xp pro to Service Pack 2, but towards the end of the install my computer crashed. Now when I try to boot it says "Non-system disk or disk error."

I do not have a cd in the drive or any usb devices attached. I do not have a floppy drive. I think the SP2 install messed up the Master Boot Record. I think I need to run Recovery Console but I do not have the Boot CD to get into it.

Does anybody have any advice or know where I can acquire an iso image of the windows xp pro boot cd or a bootable recovery console?

Thank you for your response.