Recent content by Mark Hooton

My solution Hi there - mine is now fixed, it turned out to be a hardware promblem - the PCIMCIA card/thingymajig wasn`t working which turned out to be the reason why I was getting that error message. Obviously I cannot comment on your machine but if you are getting the same message I would...

a reply Thanks for your message - yes Dell do run a partition for back up and retore purposes but persoanlly I think it might have something to do with my usb hub. About 6 months ago the dell would not reboot due to the fact, i think, that the USB controller had burnt out - I had to remove all...

Thanks, will do Thanks, Good person, I will give that a go later and see what happens - if Iget stuck I`ll get back to you and thanks again for your help!

Hi All, half way through upgrade or custom from Vista Biz to Win 7 Professional on my Dell XPS 720 I get an error message which reads 'windows could not prepare the computer to boot into the next phase of installation' I then have to reboot to get back to Vista. The blurb says that I should...