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- Nov 30, 2005
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- North Carolina
Need some advice from others with more experience than myself. Sure I'm cheap, and I don't wanna buy another XP disc if I can prevent it....
My emachines computer crapped out recently. The mouse shorted out....which shorted the motherboard....which shorted the power supply. Which left me installing new non-emachines products. Now my new Biostar motherboard won't work with the OEM restore disc that came with the computer. I formatted the hard drive and tried a fresh install, but still nothing.
Borrowed an XP disc from a friend and installed it, works perfectly. Problem is, I don't want to keep his XP on my system as it is...well...stealing. Contacted emachines and they told me they couldn't help. Ditto with Microsoft tech support.
Here's my question...is there any way I can go into my computer, using the borrowed XP disc as a boot, and "repair" the OEM installation so it will work?
My emachines computer crapped out recently. The mouse shorted out....which shorted the motherboard....which shorted the power supply. Which left me installing new non-emachines products. Now my new Biostar motherboard won't work with the OEM restore disc that came with the computer. I formatted the hard drive and tried a fresh install, but still nothing.
Borrowed an XP disc from a friend and installed it, works perfectly. Problem is, I don't want to keep his XP on my system as it is...well...stealing. Contacted emachines and they told me they couldn't help. Ditto with Microsoft tech support.
Here's my question...is there any way I can go into my computer, using the borrowed XP disc as a boot, and "repair" the OEM installation so it will work?