Need laptop repaired near Mount Airy

kenny1773 · Feb 24, 2015

It is possible to do a partial system restore from a knoppix boot CD by copying files manually

This should cover legal and safe downloads

http://www.knopper.net/knoppix-mirrors/index-en.html

While also giving you a real option to recover your system.

Good instructions here once you get booted and running from a boot CD

http://community.spiceworks.com/how...restore-manually-when-windows-is-not-bootable

couple of future looking thoughts for you

1. A 6-7 year old machine running vista should be retired. It served you well, put it to rest and replace it. The boot CD at the very least should let you copy your data off and move it to a new machine (use a USB drive as the copy destination)

2. Online backups like Crash Plan work great and are pretty cost effective these days, might be worth looking into, the perfect setup to save vacation pictures.

Traveler · Feb 24, 2015

I would add that any machine with a hard drive over five years old is living on borrowed time. The OS may not be getting security patches any more either. Drop in a new hard drive, a little more RAM, a modern OS, and rock on.

tsmith1499 · Feb 24, 2015

Hard drive replaced a year or so ago. New laptop isn't in the budget right now.

Traveler · Feb 24, 2015

tsmith1499 said:
Hard drive replaced a year or so ago. New laptop isn't in the budget right now.

Sorry man, that sucks. I put solid state drives in most things now. They sizzle.

tsmith1499 · Feb 24, 2015

So I found the reinstallation dvd for windows vista home premium 32bit. operating system dvd. I'm assuming this is the one I need to try and run somehow?

Traveler · Feb 24, 2015

That disk should allow you to boot from it, and do a rescue mode for repairs.

tsmith1499 · Feb 24, 2015

Tried the reinstallation disc. No luck. Time for a professional to take over. It's over my pay grade!!

kenny1773 · Feb 26, 2015

I hear you WRT to budget and this needing a professional, but

Here is a decent laptop for $389 - after Coupon Code: "CLC10OFF" ($50 Max Discount)

http://www.ebay.com/itm/291286900083?rmvSB=true

Lenovo Notebook Z50 (80EC000TUS) 15.6" AMD A-Series A10-7300 (1.90GHz) 1TB HDD 8

Being sold as new from newegg on ebay (VERY REPUTABLE VENDOR, NO RISK)

You will pay a couple hundred in labor to have your existing one fixed if you take it to geek squad (I would help you, but I am 60 miles from Mt Airy) and it will still be an old machine with an outdated OS. Sometimes the credit card needs to take a hit for sanity's sake

pilotguy299 · Feb 28, 2015

Did you save copies of all of your important files on another drive of some sort?

I'm not much help with Vista, but I put a small linux distro on a spare bootable USB flash drive for you. We can see if we can copy files from the laptop's hard drive to the flash drive or another drive if you have one. We would just need to know how to get in to the bios to change the boot order and put the flash drive ahead of the internal hard drive, so make and model in advance would help if you don't already know how to get in to the bios setup.

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