Recent content by ejjames

Just a lame attempt at humor.

Tried to update Windows, and got this humorous message...

I'll let you know. Thanks!

Well, I've decided to swap her unbootable 250g hard drive with a new 640 gig model. I found out she has windows 7 home 64bit. I found a disk image, and I'll do a clean install with her key. I'll then connect her old drive to my pc to determine if there are any files I can savage. Quick...

Thanks everyone, it looks like I got what I needed.

After trying every solution I can think of to boot my daughter's laptop, I've made my decision. I'm going to create a fresh install on a new, larger 640 gig drive. If that goes well, I told her that I would save what files I could from the corrupted drive. (I'll cross that bridge with her...

I've tried all the F8 options with no success. I can't remember if it has a partition with a disk image. If it does, how do I get access...command prompt? (I've never really used it.)

My 13 year-old has a fairly new laptop, (3 gigs ram, dual core) running Windows 7. I don't know if it's 32 or 64 bit. She is living with me after a divorce, so we both have little info. What happens is, it begins to boot into win7. After it reaches the animated Microsoft logo, it simply...