Awol_
05-02-2007, 03:50 AM
Hi, my brother recently installed [on the laptop, not this computer] what we thought was Photoshop which was downloaded from some Torrent site.
He ran setup, which took a long time, and when he opened the program, he got an error screen, with the red circle/X. He rebooted, and now there seems to be nothing bootable on the hdd. My XP CD is scratched beyond readability, and when I burned a copy, the computer still won't boot off of it, or the boot floppy I made. I can't even get to the dos prompt or whatever they call it now, command prompt...
I'd heard of Knoppix and downloaded it a long time ago, but never burned it or used it until an hour ago. It seems it can't detect the hdd or any partitions either.
I can't get the 'lspci -v' because it's not on this computer, and I can't seem to get the laptop online. Though, I haven't really tried that hard, other than trying Firefox once.
Should I just reformat/repartition, or should I try to get the POS online and post the thing?
--Awol
He ran setup, which took a long time, and when he opened the program, he got an error screen, with the red circle/X. He rebooted, and now there seems to be nothing bootable on the hdd. My XP CD is scratched beyond readability, and when I burned a copy, the computer still won't boot off of it, or the boot floppy I made. I can't even get to the dos prompt or whatever they call it now, command prompt...
I'd heard of Knoppix and downloaded it a long time ago, but never burned it or used it until an hour ago. It seems it can't detect the hdd or any partitions either.
I can't get the 'lspci -v' because it's not on this computer, and I can't seem to get the laptop online. Though, I haven't really tried that hard, other than trying Firefox once.
Should I just reformat/repartition, or should I try to get the POS online and post the thing?
--Awol