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John Orrett wrote:
> IconoclasticThinker@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> John Orrett wrote:
>>> Walter Mautner wrote:
>>>> John Orrett wrote:
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>>>>> Hi there; a friend of mine has a Philips Freeline LS1100 PC. The SATA
>>>>> HDD was failing, with loads of bad sectors, so I replaced it with
>>>>> another. It got to the stage that when it booted up, all that appeared
>>>>> was a blinking cursor in the top left corner.
>>>>> The problem is, when I put in the XP Media Edition disc,
>>
>> Much deleted
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>> get a boot-able copy of a Linux distro put it in the Cd fdisk and
>> format the system (for Linux)if the puter boots from the drive with
>> Linux on it then you have resolved 1/2 the problem
>> re-size the drive and reformat for XP remember to partition it
>> according to their need
>>
>> you might be dealing with the 137 GB size limiter inherent in some
>> windows Xp versions
>>
>> Knoppix comes to mind as a tool that might work best as a Linux version
>> to try
>>
>
> Thanks for the advice. I don't think the 137 GB limitation is relevant
> here, as the old HDD was 250GB and I'm replacing it with the same size.
> Unfortunately, I can't boot anything from the CD, so even trying to
> install Linux won't work. After the POST, nothing. I've removed the SATA
> HDD and booted, but it doesn't even give any error warning about no OS
> installed, just the flipping cursor!
You may have to reset your bios. Either you can "load setup defaults" or you
have to take out the battery for a while. After resetting, it really should
be able to boot from a working cdrom or floppy.
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