Pacard Bell Easynote - stuck in recovery loop at boot

[SimonCleaver]

[liljim]

It sounds like its not acknowledging that the cd you have is bootable. The first step is to make sure you have a good disk, perhaps try booting another machine with it. Next would be make sure its not scratched or has fingerprints on it. Another option would be to swap out the cdrom drive with another one if at all possible.

[Kestrel]

you can always make a bootable floppy disc (www.bootdisk.com has plenty of images), with CD-rom support, to boot with.

This will allow you to reformat the drive if necessary, and copy files from the CD-ROM to the hard drive for installation.

Although.. having seen the packard bell images, you would be better off if you have a disc for xp home (not the recovery disc, but an installable OS), you're better off installing clean and getting updated drivers for everything.

[SimonCleaver]

Thanks for the advice,
I finally got the laptop to run the Pacard Bell recovery program.
Thanks again for the help