System recovery

[Drakey]

Im having problems at the moment trying to get my system recovery disk to work at the moment, is there some kind of manual way to do it? if so share your information with me please, or any kind of way this problem can be helped.


Thanks

 

[StimpE]

What kind of problems are you having with the disc, and post system specs.

 

[Drakey]

AMD Athlon 64 3400+
512 MB Ram
200GB Hardrive
Geforce FX 5200 (soon to be Ati)

Well about half a year ago my motherboard blew up in a wierd way it wasnt showing any signal towards the monitor(black screen), so i got it fixed with my 5 year warenty. The PC came with a software package including McAfee, Works, system recovery disc etc... Once they installed the new motherboard which is the same, the system recovery disc doesnt even respond. I mean i put it in CD-Rom restart PC and it starts up like normal, thats why im asking if there is somone kind of manual system restore. :(

 

[StimpE]

Is your BIOS set to boot from the CD first?

 

[Drakey]

Yeah like, ill put in the CD then restart the computer then the system recovery options come up... it doesnt appear to do that though :(

 

[StimpE]

Is your pc an HP or Dell, or anything like that?

 

[Drakey]

No its a Advent pc

 

[Anti-Trend]

Do you have a plain old operating system install disc you could use?

 

[Drakey]

Yes, but it doesnt work on the new motherboard.

 

[Anti-Trend]

Yes, but it doesnt work on the new motherboard.

I'm not talking about a restore disc, which is merely a mirror image of the contents of a preinstalled operating system. I am talking about an OS install disc, e.g. Windows XP.

 

[Drakey]

I'm sorry im not sure about what you are meaning :(

 

[Anti-Trend]

I'm sorry im not sure about what you are meaning :(

I am saying that if you have a real Windows XP disc (or whatever OS it is that you use), like an honest-to-goodness holographically printed Windows XP disc, install that instead. But since you have no idea what I'm talking about, you probably only have your system restore disc that was given to you by your PC manufacturer. If you have no real Windows disc, only the recovery disc, you need to either get a new recovery disc or a regular XP install disc from the manufacturer.

 

[Drakey]

Oh ok :(

 

[Big B]

If the new motherboard is a different one than what you had, specifically if it's using a different storage controller that's not native to XP default driver database, then that may be where it's running into trouble.