Laptop wont startup

[steve5451]

god damn people, you need to stop bitching. Everyone has their preferences.

I personally hate Windows, but someone else might like Window's ease-of-access and open-source-ness more.

While, yes, Windows has a better user interface, but I much rather prefer Linux's customization and speed.

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[UncleNinja]

Window's ease-of-access and open-source-ness more.

I'm literally on my knees praying that you're kidding.

Its a crappy mini notebook laptop.
It doesnt do ANYTHING when  start it up, that black screen shows up with the problem that occured.
The laptop doesnt read CD's, Just SD cards.
I cant do a wipe because, the loving thing is handicapped. I cant do stuff right now.

Does the BIOS support booting from USB drives? If so,

install a version of Linux onto a USB Stick and boot from it, Then backup any important files and wipe your Laptop's hard drive.

[Arcturus]

Ok i think i have fixed it.
It froze while loading system files so i force shut down the laptop.
It's running disk check at the moment.

[steve5451]

I have Puppy Linux on my flash drive for teh lulz.
I also boot off of it at school for my stuff and to impress everyone by dragging the windows around.

[Arcturus]

Its forgeted.
Any suggestions?
I really need some things off that.

All my addons, models, scripts, programs and stuff i really need are on that laptop.

I really need to access it.

Help?

[Arcturus]

Im trying this : http://www.fixya.com/support/t3763718-mini_notebook_crashed_windows_xp_boot

[UncleNinja]

Its forgeted.
Any suggestions?
I really need some things off that.

Did you read my last post? No offense or anything, of course.

Here's some precise instructions:

Do this on the computer you're posting with:

• Download Puppy Linux from here. It's only 127mb.
• Install the ISO on to a CD. Windows can do this out of the box, just double click on the ISO.
• Put the CD that you just burned into your CD drive if it's not already and reboot.
• You should be in Puppy. If you're not (you will know if you are), reboot and change your BIOS settings to boot from your CD drive first.
• Put in a spare USB drive you have lying around. It should be at least 128MB, although larger is better.
• Go to Menu>Setup>BootFlash Install puppy to Usb (or something like that)
• Use the tool to install Puppy to the USB drive.

On the borked computer:

• Put in the USB drive and reboot it. You will probably have to go into the BIOS settings and change the boot order so that the USB drive is booted first. To be honest, you haven't provided much detail so I have no idea what the exact problem is with your netbook.
• Plug in a backup drive of some sort (Big ol' backup drive or maybe just another flash drive. Depends on how much you wanna backup).
• Use the file manager (probably nautilus, could be wrong though) to drag files from your old drive (which you may need to mount) into the backup drive (which may also be mounted).
• Shut down the netbook.

yay. Now all the files that you need should be backed up on that external drive.

[Ethan]

^Once that is done, just make a simple dos boot disk (cd, usb, floppy) and format from there, and reinstall Windows.

[The Titanium]

excuse me sir but i fuggn love my laptop.

[brickybob]

ASUS EeePC?

If you can't do a wipe you should go and buy a new one, because you can't fix it.

If it's EeePC get PuppEee

[steve5451]

You wouldn't be in this situation if you were running Linux, now would you?

[SeventhSandwich]

gtfo linuxcigarette >:(

also

enjoy your no gaems and bad os dohohohoh

I know right.

It has LESS games then Macintosh OS X!

[Arcturus]

How about I take the harddrive out, Connect it to my dad's laptop, then take the files I need and place them on CD's.
Doesnt that seem to work also?

[steve5451]

I know right.

It has LESS games then Macintosh OS X!

Well it can actually run Windows game and programs. >:o

[ShadowZero]

Install Ubuntu. :D

More like install foreign software thats extremely unfamiliar.