Hi All,
I am new here, so if I say something that doesn't make any sense, please forgive me. Also, I'm not sure if this is the right forum.... I hope so....
I have an eMachines desktop Model running XP home that I wanted to give away to my neighbor. It was working fine, but my husband wanted to do a total system restore so none of our info or settitngs would be on it. OK, fine. We did the restore with the eMachines retore CDs, which seemed to work, until the system rebooted after finishing the second CD. We start to go through the Windows registration, and we only get to the "What's your computer's name?" before it stops-- you can move the mouse, so it's not frozen, but it doesn't progress no matter how long you leave it. We got another set of eMachines restore CD's, same problem.
I borrowed a regular (not eMachines restore) XP home CD and installed that, and it worked, but I don't have a proper key since it's borrowed. I did get it totally up and running with the borrowed XP, though, no problem.
Since I'm just giving it away, I'm not too keen on buying a $200 windows XP, though. And my husband feels we might have a hard drive problem and that maybe it would need a new hard drive. I'm more inclined to buy the harddrive, but obviously only if it'll work.
I would scrap the whole thing, but my neighbor already told her kids who are so excited.... blast it all.
Please tell me you guys have some ideas! Thank you!
I am new here, so if I say something that doesn't make any sense, please forgive me. Also, I'm not sure if this is the right forum.... I hope so....
I have an eMachines desktop Model running XP home that I wanted to give away to my neighbor. It was working fine, but my husband wanted to do a total system restore so none of our info or settitngs would be on it. OK, fine. We did the restore with the eMachines retore CDs, which seemed to work, until the system rebooted after finishing the second CD. We start to go through the Windows registration, and we only get to the "What's your computer's name?" before it stops-- you can move the mouse, so it's not frozen, but it doesn't progress no matter how long you leave it. We got another set of eMachines restore CD's, same problem.
I borrowed a regular (not eMachines restore) XP home CD and installed that, and it worked, but I don't have a proper key since it's borrowed. I did get it totally up and running with the borrowed XP, though, no problem.
Since I'm just giving it away, I'm not too keen on buying a $200 windows XP, though. And my husband feels we might have a hard drive problem and that maybe it would need a new hard drive. I'm more inclined to buy the harddrive, but obviously only if it'll work.
I would scrap the whole thing, but my neighbor already told her kids who are so excited.... blast it all.
Please tell me you guys have some ideas! Thank you!