Hello,
Wonder if anyone can help with this? I have a laptop which was running perfectly up until very recently (4 years old). I'll just put the facts down.
It was originally running Win ME, then I upgraded to Win XP.
One day I was playing music on it, and it ran out of battery power. It went to hibernate. The thing wouldn't boot up again. It came up with messages saying it couldn't find boot.init
From this I reckoned that the BIOS had had it. So I got the OEM disks which are meant to restore the whole computer back to the factory settings (clean install).
PROBLEM
Even after it says the laptop has been successfully restored - I have been having problems - Freezes, error messages, etc. It won't even accept an upgrade to XP. Within its new world of windows ME, it is not reliable at all, and programs do tend to freeze when you least expect it.
Its basically not usable.
Does anyone have any ideas? I am getting short on options after about 30+ reinstalls. If I could afford it what I'd really love to do is get a hammer and smash the thing up
(Next ones a MAC - that's for sure)
Any help would be very welcome,
Thank you,
LF