I have a Toshiba Satellite R15 with Windows XP. It doesn’t boot, it says that \system32\hal.dll is missing. I have a recovery disc, but nothing happens when I put in. Is there something special I should do?
Do you understand that running the recovery disc will erase everything from the hard drive? Please back up all [...]
My laptop keeps shutting down on its own but its only when I leave it alone for a little while like I will go eat dinner then about an hour later it will shut down. I don’t think this is a overheating problem because it would be shutting down when I am on the laptop. [...]
After changing the hard drive in my laptop, I am getting the following error message:
PXE-E61
PXE-M0F
Operating system not found
You can get this message if the hard dive is bad OR there is no operating system installed.
Didn’t you forget to reimage the hard drive using the recovery disc which usually comes with a laptop? This process will [...]
My computer won’t start and it says – the Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: windows\system32\config\system”. I have a ThinkPad T60 computer and I am currently studying abroad in a different country away from home and I do not have the original CD for Windows…Is there any way I [...]
I have a HP DV5000 laptop, and I decided to do a full PC recovery, so when it tells me to put in 2nd disk, once I put the disk and press OK after a couple seconds while its trying to load it, it powers off automatically, I turn it on and start it over [...]
I have a Toshiba Satellite M35-s456. The hard drive crashed and I installed a new hard drive, when I try to run the system recovery CD I get a message that says “wrong system”. I can see the hard drive and DVD reader in the BIOS setup utility and the boot from DVD is the [...]
I recently bought myself a Compaq nx9005 notebook. Everything was working when I first got it. I then tried to install a favorite game I used to play back in my teenage years. Unbeknown to me, this was never going to work because the program was too old. In my naivety I thought the best [...]
I have a HP Notebook nc6230 with Windows XP professional. I want to work on Windows Server 2003, so I tried installing the Windows Server 2003 on my external hard driver connecting through a USB cable. After I finish the initial installation (Formatting the drive and selecting the default the drive) when the computer restarts [...]
I’m trying to restore the operating system to a Toshiba A75, when I put in the restore DVD it starts the process but stops and gives an error of “Output A:\GHOST.ERR” and gives Yes or No choices. It will then come back with an error message of cannot open Ghost.err. It continues to do this [...]
I have a Toshiba Satellite A65 S-1068. Recently the Windows XP Home crashed and I have installed another version (Professional) having lost the original CD that came with the laptop. I am gradually downloading all the drivers etc. from the Toshiba site. My problem is with the Power Saver Software. The newly installed software does [...]
