How to Murder a Netbook..

[Ki-Ki]

Buy one of these:

Delete one of these b@stards:

'Aquire' one of these:

Write it to one of these..:

Plug it into your netbook.

Boot from USB

Recieve one of these:

Bullseye.

There you have it, you won't be able to reinstall a OS either because your USB Flash Drive won't seem to boot any afterwards. So don't worry about that.

Any questions, feel free to ask..

:beer:

 

[Mattykins]

Strange. We (my brother and I) just moved an MSI wind over to leopard, dual boots seamlessly. Everything works like a charm.

Sucks man. Sorry to hear that.

 

[Anhar_Miah]

Nah I'm pretty sure you can boot it, take a look into the BIOS. some even support Net Installing.

I've revived a dead IBM thinkpad that was badly installed with a USB.

If its XP, then take a look at the boot.ini file and make sure the right disks/ partitions are configured correctly, you could probably use a live Linux USB to read and edit the file or maybe a MS DOS boot disk (for USBs, BARTS PE?)

If worst comes to worst, rip out the hard drive, slap it into a caddy and install the OS that way,

 

[Ki-Ki]

Well it start's up as norma. I select 'F12' to boot from a certain area..

I get the following choices:

1. IDE 0: ST-------AS
2. USB HDD: SanDisk Cruzer
3. Network Boot: LEGACY PCI DEVICE
4. USB CDROM: SanDisk Cruzer

Well option 4 (Netbook hasn't even got a CD Rom Drive) & it continues.. to the below error mesage:

Windows could not start because the following file is missing
or corrupt:
<Windows root>\system32\hal.dll.
Please re-install a copy of the above file.

However.

If I scroll down to option '2.' Hit Enter..

I get the following message:

Remove disks or other media.
Press any key to restart
_

If i hit the 'any key', it goes back to the original error message..

Windows could not start because the following file is missing
or corrupt:
<Windows root>\system32\hal.dll.
Please re-install a copy of the above file.

--- edit:

Just took a look at this guys website, http://www.aspireoneguide.com/windows7guide.html

Never thought I'd be glad to see the words 'Microsoft Corporation' again. Installing Windows 7 now.

 

[Anhar_Miah]

from the above steps, I'm now certain you can still boot from USB, just stick in a LiveUSB Unbuntu OS and then try and copy and paste the hal.DLL file.

If not just nuke the OS again with a fresh copy.