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If it's a blue screen of death (or windows in general...) then just hit it with a hammer. That should solve it

*shudders*bsod .
If its that damn 'scanning' thing at the beginning of EVERY start up then my bro seems to have that aswell. Check your local newspapers for a local IT man, i've got this guy who lives just around the corner who helps out alot.

EckoZero wrote:hit it with a hammer

Our computer guru refers to this process as 'Percussive Maintenance'

Mandrake wrote:

EckoZero wrote:hit it with a hammer

Our computer guru refers to this process as 'Percussive Maintenance'

"Sorry mate, it's completely FUBAR. Best thing for it's a hammer!"

Don't you love it when techies tell you that after all these years of were complaning you were actually right??

Sam, I emailed what you said to Dave and he's just come back and said that it sounds like the disk or the power supply could be on the way out, the disk is the main suspect.

More problems now. Ive decided just to restore the whole system back to as it was when i bought it. SO i go through all the setup with the recoverydiskand wndows beigns to install, but then it asks me to insert a disk with the file intelppm.sys on itand i don't have a clue what this is, just wondering if any of you lovely people knew what this may be.

Thanks in advance

Sam

The intelppm.sys file is a windows system driver.
You should be able to get it from your laptop, its in

C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers

Once you have it on a floppy or a usb pen drive ( copy and paste it not cut and paste, or you will have two broken computers ), stick it in when you are asked for the disc conyaining the file.

That file could be what caused your crash in the first place

Can't find any file called thaton here,anychance anydoby could e-mail me it?

Pmed you

Ok, so now that ihave the file i need (Very much appreciated delude) my compuyter has decided to deal me another cruel hand Now when i try to re-install windows i get asked about partitions or something of the like, anyone any idea what to do here

Cheers

Sam

EDIT: Just thought i'd add that there is one partition there already which i am unsure where i should overwrite or not incase it contans all of the computers hardware drivers or anything imprtant

Sorry if I'm becoming a pain in the old posterior

The only partitioning I've ever done was with my iPod when I was hacking it. I'll search around the internet though and try to help, but can you tell me the name of the partitions and what exactly happens? [Like you put a disk in to reinstall windows and it comes up with an error ect]

Ok, I'll be as detailed as possible. Ok to begin with my machine is a fujitsu siemens Scaleo P.

1. Ok so to begin withthere is no windows cdwith this computer. All i got was a recovery cd which you enter to wipe the computer clean with the windows code being on a little window sticker on the top of the tower.

2. With the recovery disk in i turn the computer on. From here it loads up and a message appears saying "Press any key to boot from the CD" so i press return. From here a blue screen appears with "Windows Setup" at the top and begins to load with the meeasge "Setup is loading Files".

3. Once that has loaded some new options appear. "To set up windows press ENTER", To repair windows xp installation using recovery console press r". From here i press ENTER and again it loads for a short while.

4. I then get a screen with the windows user liscense agreement to which i agree to by pressing f8.Once again it loads

5. (Now the problem is here) A new screen appears with the following-
The following list shows the existing partitions and unpartitioned space on this computer.

Use the UP and DOWN arrow keys to selecet an item in the list.

To set up windows Xp on the selected item press ENTER

To create a partition in the unpartitioned space, press c

To Delete the selected partition, Press D.

152626 MB Disk 0 aT Id 0 on bus 0 on atapi [MBR]

C: Partition1 [NTFS] 152617 (1114502 MB free)
Unpartitioned Space 8MB

Then there are three of the same messages below each other

Unknown Disk

<There is no disk in this drive>

So thats it. I hope thats hekped you to help me I'm just not sure where to go or what to do from here. Keeping in mind all i would like is a computer that functions like new with everything wiped and everything fully functioning (Minus any hardware that would need to be installed manually such as printers ect.)

Thnaks Alot

The best advice I can offer as a Mac person is to search online for a Windows boot disc which matches your system.

Download, make a floppy.

Then boot from it, and in conjunction with your Windows installer CD, you should find it a simple task.

Partitions hold nowt if you don't want them to!

Usually, on sites which have boot discs available, there's a runthrough of how to get the thing sorted... I would start here:
http://www.bootdisk.com/

It's pretty straightforward, but be sure to keep an eye on third party hardware drivers—you may need to dig out your discs that came with the computer, as there's normall a bunch of third party hardware such as graphics and soundcards which the Windows install disc won't cover properly.

I've done this procedure a few times when upgrading systems to bigger HDs etc., and never had a problem.

So press d and delete the information that is already there for the new windows installation

Bit the bullet and went for it. Reformatting as we speak, will be sure to let you guys know how it goes