No dice. I burned the DOS CD and booted to it. I get the error message: The ISO I downloaded has the following in it: DLDDIAG.TXT...
I was not able to make a USB drive bootable. I will go back and attempt a bootable CD. But won't know the results of that until I get home and...
Penny Arcade comic about the multiple editions of Vista. I think it's appropriate.
I thought I'd updated this. Ultimate Boot Disk for Windows failed. It would not load the environment that held all the diagnostic tools. When I...
The day you told me to get the diagnostics, I went to classes with the computer, and plugged it in to run them. However, the machine booted...
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Someone passed me a copy of Ultimate Boot Disk last night. My first priority will be to run those tools tonight when I get home, and see if I can...
Gah! They're charging me for recovery tools! I can understand if I had to have them make a physical CD and ship it to me. But something like...
Found some tools. http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=702&sid=3&lang=en I've got the Data Lifeguard Diagnostic for Windows on a...
Found a dell's Vista restore CD, and I booted from it. I selected the option to "Launch Startup Repair," and then triggered the CD drive to boot....
Have the laptop in hand... No vista disc yet, I'm still trying to borrow someone's to fix it with. But here's some error code for everyone to chew...
Would a bootlog be a good place to start? Or do I need something fancier like those utils from the manufacturers?
Discovered it 7 seconds after posting. You won't see IE7 unless you have "show updates" checked on Add/Remove programs. Sorry.
I'm currently testing a theory of mine - trying to get some home-banking issues resolved - in that when I had IE6, the process worked, but when I...
Well, I am diagnosing over the phone, so don't be too hard on me. I did the right thing and asked if there was documentation and/or restore discs...
gplea - You had 3/5? What do you have that I didn't? Share the wealth, man.
Found it. It was still sitting with last semester's pile of books that hadn't been touched since before Christmas. SITE I:...
The laptop was not shipped with a Vista DVD. Will any Vista DVD work? Or does it have to be one with the same key on it?
I was just saying that more as running down my own analysis. Helped me to talk it out. "Even if it *did* havea floppy drive, my boot disk...
I don't have physical access to the machine, but the end user is competent enough to follow directions. I just need some vista-specific help...
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