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02-08-2008, 02:44 AM
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How do I bypass a Recovery CD
Have an old eMax (no idea who made that machine) which has one of those recovery cd's that restores WinMe from a separate partition. Doesn't seem to be a boot order setting in the BIOS, so it was obviously designed to just use the recovery disk. Is there a way to bypass this, so I can boot from something else and try installing something newer? Thanks.
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02-08-2008, 04:35 AM
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If the machine is that old, something newer will run pretty slow.
How to start the Setup program from MS-DOS in Windows XP http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;307848
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02-08-2008, 11:28 AM
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It'll run a Linux distro like Puppy or DSL just fine. They're made for older hardware. Might even try MicroXP.
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02-08-2008, 12:47 PM
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Try zero filling the drive and booting with a CD. I seem to remember machines that will boot from the first bootable device it finds and you can't change it.
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02-08-2008, 01:07 PM
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How do I zero fill the drive if the only disk it'll boot from is the recovery disk? All of these answers seem to assume that I can change the boot order in the BIOS which I can't.
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02-08-2008, 02:13 PM
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So the machine you typing with now is the same winME machine?
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02-08-2008, 02:21 PM
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Remove the drive and zero fill it in another machine. What I'm saying is - if the hard drive is not bootable, then it may boot to any bootable CD all by itself.
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02-08-2008, 04:41 PM
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"then it may boot to any bootable CD all by itself". Sorry, don't follow you there. Do you mean take it out, put it in another machine and then try booting another OS. Wouldn't it then install the dirivers for that machine and not the original one?
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02-08-2008, 04:47 PM
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I think Glc means this:
1- remove the hdd and install it temporarily in a different pc. 2 - zero fill the hard drive to remove everything on it 3 - reinstall the empty hdd back in the troublesome pc 4 - boot with the bootable cd in the cd drive. Since the hdd no longer has boot capability, it will see the cd as the next logical boot device. |
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