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Iqon recovery disk problem

  • 20-07-2009 9:48am
    #1
    foggers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 96 ✭✭


    Hi,
    I am trying to reinstall a mates OS on his Iqon desktop. It didn't come with the recovery disks and these were made using the software included with the machine. He had two copies made, one on 2 cds and 1 on 1 dvd, just in case something happened to one of them. ANyway, his OS(XP MCE) has gone belly up and it needs to be reinstalled. The problem is that the DVD and CD restore disks are not bootbale. Only discovered this when I went to reinstall the OS. It's not that his DVD-RW drive is faulty, I have tried a few drives in the machine and also tried it in my own. The optical device is set as the primary boot device and it does come up 'bootin g from cd', but it quickly disappears and throws up the windows loading screen before the BSOD kicks in. I can't access safe mode either. I tried the F10 method aswell but pressing F10 does nothing on this machine. It must not have a recovery partition or it is inaccessable. Basically, what I am asking is if anyone has any other ideas for me how I can ghet the OS back on this machine?

    I do have one idea though, if someone out there has a working recovery disk for an IQON with XP MCE I could use it and enter his own key then activate it. He should not have to buy a new XP disk just because the IQON s/w is a bag of 5h1te. He did the right thing, he made his recovery disks immediately when he got it and it's not his fault. I hope someone can help.

    Cheers.
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  • #2
    kaizersoze
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,042 ✭✭✭kaizersoze


    To access the recovery partition (assuming it's still intact) try F11 on it's own or CTRL+F11 together during boot.


  • #3
    foggers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 96 ✭✭foggers


    kaizersoze wrote: »
    To access the recovery partition (assuming it's still intact) try F11 on it's own or CTRL+F11 together during boot.


    Cheers..........Will try that later when I'm home. The literature with it says to press R and when I googled it, it says F10..............neither work so F11 it is so! Thanks.


  • #4
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,442 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    check what files are on the disks on the offchance that the images were copied to them rather than the disks were burned from the images


  • #5
    foggers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 96 ✭✭foggers


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    check what files are on the disks on the offchance that the images were copied to them rather than the disks were burned from the images



    Just a folder called SMIMG and a few files called askcd1, cd0, multicd(hidden) and smimg.log

    The foklder comtains what looks like images of arond 900MB in total and the file in the root dir called askcd1 would appear to be the one where it asks for the next cd............It would appear to be ok?????? If not, how can I access the image? The extension is .inp but when I check this out on fileinfo.com it says that an inp file Contains input for an ABAQUS model; used for engineering simulations and analyses?????????????????

    AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH..............

    Haven't tried the F11 yet..........Mate is bringing around later.........


  • #6
    foggers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 96 ✭✭foggers


    F11 did not work...............rightly stuck now.


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  • #7
    kaizersoze
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,042 ✭✭✭kaizersoze


    That normally works on the Iqons but it doesn't surprise me, they were woeful.

    Get any copy of XP (any version) and boot from it to recovery console. Then run chkdsk /r at the command prompt. Might get it back up and running at least.


  • #8
    foggers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 96 ✭✭foggers


    tried all that...........thanks anyway.


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