[ubuntu-uk] Windows XP CD

[Daniel Case]

Michael, i have a burnt Windows XP Home CD due to the fact that mine
actually snapped

As long as you use the officially licensed product key, it is legal, i
can post it if you like as i no longer
have a need for it.

An OEM copy of XP will work, its just a case of having the drivers. If
it has a SATA harddrive you may need to include
the correct SATA drivers onto the disk before installation.

Dan

On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Rob Beard <rob at esdelle.co.uk> wrote:
> On 04/06/10 19:11, Michael G Fletcher wrote:
>>> What make is his laptop?
>>>
>>> Rob
>>
>> A Dell Inspiron 6000... trying to save his 38GB of music :-(
>>
>> I got it to the point where it loads the Welcome screen, but when I
>> logon the user, it just automatically logs me out again.  I can get
>> into the safe-mode with command prompt, and tried to install SP3, but
>> doesn't seem to want to install!
>>
>> Michael
>>
>
> You'll probably find that a standard Windows XP CD won't work (that is,
> an OEM copy of Windows XP).  You'll need a specific Dell version which
> is tied to the Dell BIOS (funnily enough doing it this way any Dell
> Windows XP CD should work).  If you e-mail me off list I might possibly
> be able to help.
>
> In the mean time, if he hasn't got an external hard drive, I'd suggest
> he gets one (I bought a 1TB Western Digital USB 2 hard drive yesterday
> from PC World for £60 using their collect from store option when
> reserving it on the web site).  Then try booting from an Ubuntu CD and
> you should be able to mount his hard drive and copy any data, pictures,
> music etc off the drive.  At least that way his data is backed up.
>
> Then TBH I'd suggest maybe wiping the lot and starting from scratch.
> I've done repair installs of Windows before but they've never really
> worked that well.
>
> Rob
>
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