Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 21:30:36 EST From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Cryptic Message at Boot - W2K
In a message dated 1/15/2005 1:42:53 PM Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Select option 1 and go to Screen 4: > > ------------ > > > > 1. [X] Inspect startup environment > > 2. [ ] Verify Windows system files > > 3. [X] Inspect Boot Sector > > Leaving the X on line 2 wlll search your W2K installation for any missing > or corrupted OS files and replace them from the installation files the > setup porgram is running from. > > > > Clear the X from option 2 and go to Screen 5: > > ------------ > > > > 1. If you have a W2K Emergency Repair Disk press ENTER > > 2. If you want don't have an ERD press L and setup will attempt to locate > > for you. > > I think that's supposed to read, ""..setup will attempt to locate W2K > installations for you." > > The Portege 7010CT is new relatively speaking, isn't it Lee? It doesn't > suffer from the Int13 extensions problem that our Libbys do, does it? > > >Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 12:34:12 -0800 > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Add to Address Book > >To: "Libretto" <[email protected]> > >Subject: [LIB] Re. your email > > Hmmm.... "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ... looking closer there I guess it's > not Dan's server having the problem. > > Matt > > Thanks, Matt. Hopefully the few geek genes I have perhaps passed along will enable my daughter to attempt this procedure on her own. FYI, the 7010CT is a PII-300, so not so new. I bought it on ebay for $160, threw in my L100's old 20GB Travelstar, installed W98se/W2k and voila! El Cheapo student laptop. I thought it was a nice, though modest and utilitarian, setup - and so did she until she saw her roommate's IBook. Apple envy! Lee
