Repair Disc

Riva10

My old but serviceable Dell Latitude D610 has decided that I need to boot it up with the CD that came with it. This is not possible for me to do as I bought the laptop 2nd or 3rd hand and no disc. Any help in getting a cd or a loan of one would be appreciated as the laptop contains family photos. I can get a cd from a Dell Demension . Not the same but nearly as old. Would my laptop boot up with this or would it self destruct. :)

extra-ordinary_

What's the exact message/error you get when you boot it up?

riclad

YOU can use a live cd,
eg mint 7 on 1 cdr to bootup, and acess data,or any files,photo on the laptop.

http://www.linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=38
download iso file,
use Imgburn free program to burn image,
SET options burn speed to 2x or 4x.
put cd in laptop, reboot,
it should load os into memory.

Riva10

extra-ordinary_ wrote: »

What's the exact message/error you get when you boot it up?

when I try a boot diagnostics I get 10000-0146 and 1000-0141
Tried to boot with a never used xp cd and got " File txtsetup.sif is corrupt or missing" and then asked to press any key to exit

Riva10

riclad wrote: »

YOU can use a live cd,
eg mint 7 on 1 cdr to bootup, and acess data,or any files,photo on the laptop.

http://www.linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=38
download iso file,
use Imgburn free program to burn image,
SET options burn speed to 2x or 4x.
put cd in laptop, reboot,
it should load os into memory.

Tried Linux Lite and just got Linux Lite Screen and could not move from there

riclad

try DSL damn small linux,
designed for older pcs laptops,
OR ebcd ,emergency boot disk,
ultimate book disk,

one of those gives you a menu to acess files copy,them onto a usb drive.

DId YOU TRY Safe mode, f8, hold f8 key till menu appears on bootup.
on older laptops with slow cpu,s it may take 5-10 mins for linux to load into memory.
even if windows files are missing ,
you should still be able to acess files ,photos using a live cd,
ITS even possible to load linux from a usb key 1gig ,
without installing or changing any file on the hardisk.

Riva10

riclad wrote: »

try DSL damn small linux,
designed for older pcs laptops,
OR ebcd ,emergency boot disk,
ultimate book disk,

one of those gives you a menu to acess files copy,them onto a usb drive.

DId YOU TRY Safe mode, f8, hold f8 key till menu appears on bootup.
on older laptops with slow cpu,s it may take 5-10 mins for linux to load into memory.

Tried safe mode and also safe mode with command prompt. :mad:

riclad

I used damn small linux, on a 1ghz CPU thinkpad ,laptop ,
it should work fine on your laptop,
its 50meg file download

http://www.dell.com/support/my-support/us/en/19/product-support/product/latitude-d610/manuals

http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/
BOOTS from cdr or usb

older versions of linux, are faster ,if you are just copying files from an older pc or laptop.

riclad

ON laptops which cannot load windows in safe mode,
it s usually a virus which deletes windows boot files,
or it maybe old hardrive hardware fault.
BACKUP all your files ,documents ,
do a complete os reinstall if you still have the windows
xp disc.
REINSTALL windows xp,install process formats drive c, which will delete any virus,es you might have.

extra-ordinary_

Riva10 wrote: »

when I try a boot diagnostics I get 10000-0146 and 1000-0141
Tried to boot with a never used xp cd and got " File txtsetup.sif is corrupt or missing" and then asked to press any key to exit

I'm still not getting you...

1. Laptop sitting on table powered off.
2. You hit power.
3. What happens next?




Getting your data back shouldn't be a problem - either a live cd or hirems boot CD or even take the drive out and stick it in a caddy.

danger_mouse_tm

Get that drive out and put it into a Caddy before you completely lose your photos. When you boot from any live CD, if your hard drive in damaged there's going to be startup problems. You can remove the drive and boot from a live cd THEN with the drive in a caddy connect it via usb.

riclad

THE point of a live cd it boots the os ,linux into pc ram,
the drive hard disk doesnt need to boot up at all,
UNLESS you are a techie expert ,
Its safer to use a live cd ,
and browse to drive c,
copy the files to a usb drive ,or another drive in the system.
ON linux it shows up as drive 0,hard disk
or my computer ,filesytem, drive 1 ,hardisk
or something similar.
my laptops may not boot ,but the files are still there,
in ,my docs,user 1 docs,my music,my pictures etc

it can take 10 minutes to boot up linux into ram on an old dell laptop.

Pixie69

riclad wrote: »

THE point of a live cd it boots the os ,linux into pc ram,
the drive hard disk doesnt need to boot up at all,
UNLESS you are a techie expert ,
Its safer to use a live cd ,
and browse to drive c,
copy the files to a usb drive ,or another drive in the system.
ON linux it shows up as drive 0,hard disk
or my computer ,filesytem, drive 1 ,hardisk
or something similar.
my laptops may not boot ,but the files are still there,
in ,my docs,user 1 docs,my music,my pictures etc

it can take 10 minutes to boot up linux into ram on an old dell laptop.

Dude what's up with your keyboard?

Riva10

danger_mouse_tm wrote: »

Get that drive out and put it into a Caddy before you completely lose your photos. When you boot from any live CD, if your hard drive in damaged there's going to be startup problems. You can remove the drive and boot from a live cd THEN with the drive in a caddy connect it via usb.

Job Done as above. Touch and go for a time but all photos recovered . thanks for all help.