RE: [H] Toshiba Laptop and XP Home Boot Problem

2007-06-23 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 11:05 PM 22/06/2007, Harvey Best wrote: When I put the recovery disk in, it wants to reformat the hdd. I can't get to a command prompt in any version of boot. I thought you said you had an XP CD that you were going to use to install over the current install. If so, use that. Otherwise,

RE: [H] Toshiba Laptop and XP Home Boot Problem

2007-06-23 Thread Harvey Best
Laptop and XP Home Boot Problem At 11:05 PM 22/06/2007, Harvey Best wrote: When I put the recovery disk in, it wants to reformat the hdd. I can't get to a command prompt in any version of boot. I thought you said you had an XP CD that you were going to use to install over the current install

[H] Toshiba Laptop and XP Home Boot Problem

2007-06-22 Thread Harvey Best
I have a Toshiba laptop running Win XP Home. All updated. Running Zone Alarm and Network Magic. (Don't believe this is the problem though). I was adding a new user in User setup to be able to access the local library free WiFi when I am at my vacation place.In taking things out of the startup

Re: [H] Toshiba Laptop and XP Home Boot Problem

2007-06-22 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 06:32 PM 22/06/2007, Harvey Best wrote: I have a Toshiba laptop running Win XP Home. All updated. Running Zone Alarm and Network Magic. (Don't believe this is the problem though). I was adding a new user in User setup to be able to access the local library free WiFi when I am at my vacation

Re: [H] Toshiba Laptop and XP Home Boot Problem

2007-06-22 Thread Rick Glazier
Which startup file did you change?, and have you seen this? http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;811151 Rick Glazier From: Harvey Best I have a Toshiba laptop running Win XP Home. All updated. Running Zone Alarm and Network Magic. (Don't believe this is the

RE: [H] Toshiba Laptop and XP Home Boot Problem

2007-06-22 Thread Harvey Best
I have indeed read that. But, I can not log in, even in safe mode to make any changes. I can not even get a safe mode command prompt.Harvey From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Toshiba Laptop and XP Home Boot Problem Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 21:37:05 -0400

Re: [H] Toshiba Laptop and XP Home Boot Problem

2007-06-22 Thread Rick Glazier
Message - From: Harvey Best To: The Hardware List Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 10:06 PM Subject: RE: [H] Toshiba Laptop and XP Home Boot Problem I have indeed read that. But, I can not log in, even in safe mode to make any changes. I can not even get a safe mode command prompt