xp recovery disc needed
 

Hello again tech wizards.

I have a 2 year old HP laptop that is stuck in a boot loop... it will not get to a screen I can do anything with... ie it will just keep rebooting.

I cannot get to safe mode. I was unable to make a boot disc the few times I tried, it would stop burning the disc at some point.

Right now a (much more) computer savvy friend of mine has the lappy, he says he has found a way to make a disc for me, but needs to d/l Nero or the like to burn the.iso to a disc. He has had the computer for about 2 months and at this point I just want to get it back.

Does anyone know a way to make a recovery disc? I can use the wife's laptop to burn the disc if I get that far.

Thanks,

doh

Can you recover from a hidden recovery partition?

From this page:
HP Notebook PCs- Using the PC Recovery Solution

This is (basically) how my ASUS notebook can be taken back to "factory settings", though they also provided a CD with this same content.

Hope that helps.

You can also download a XP Recovery CD from XP Professional Recovery

I had this same problem... I didn't exact fix it. All I did was let Ubuntu do a guided install so that it would dual boot with my windows (via GRUB). I don't know what could have gone wrong for this to have fixed it.

However some tips once you get it up and running: PartImage. I used this to create a backup of my windows partition so that I could restore it, like Norton Ghost, only not as good where it will fix the partition tables as well. Oh well. You can make bootable discs that will restore the partitions as well.

ImgBurn works to burn ISO images, and it is free. Even after Nero came with my new burner, I still preferred to use ImgBurn as it is simpler, in my opinion. Also, ImgBurn works in Wine (in Ubuntu).