Hi daughters Tos laptop won't load Vista, keeps saying its shutting it down to prevent damage to the computor, that's before we get to the welcome screen. Running it in any of the safe modes, makes no difference.
I tried booting it with my XP disc, same thing happens, so I thought sod this and bought a new hard disk for £30 of ebay, stuck it in and tried to install XP, same thing happens as before. oh:
Now in a flash of inspiration, I downloaded Ubuntu, and installed it on a 4gig usb stick, put it in the laptop and it boots and runs perfectly, so what the heck is going on?
Why is it with a brand new disk I can't install XP but I can install Ubuntu?
Ian
I tried booting it with my XP disc, same thing happens, so I thought sod this and bought a new hard disk for £30 of ebay, stuck it in and tried to install XP, same thing happens as before. oh:
Now in a flash of inspiration, I downloaded Ubuntu, and installed it on a 4gig usb stick, put it in the laptop and it boots and runs perfectly, so what the heck is going on?
Why is it with a brand new disk I can't install XP but I can install Ubuntu?
Ian