Sehray hello, my small Asus notebook was not detecting the pen drive and it had become too slow. i thought of re installing the windows from internal hard disk. i did change some settings by cmd prompt. now on reboot its showing is there any fix for that. keeping in mind, it was not detecting the pen drive and it has no disc drive.

SOURCE: HP Pavillion dv 5000

I would test the hard drive - The easiest way to test it is to download the hitachi drive test - It comes as a CD image file which you can make into a bootable CD. You will need a program that can burn image (ISO) files to CD - if you dont have one use CD Burner XP which is free at www.cdburnerxp.se

Run the advanced diagnostics and it will do a thorough scan of the drive.

I would lay odds the drive is failing. If data is important to you i would recommend trying to backup data before doing any more testing.

Don

SOURCE: Gateway MX6960 stuck on "Press F11 to start Recovery"

SATA drivers are on the xp disk,you just hit F6 during the install,when it ask you to.

Setup boot can be downloaded from here Just scroll down to the xp section and download to your desk top.Make sure you have 4- 6 floppies ready.once downloaded to the desktop,double click and follow the instruction.

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Paul W

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• Posted on Jan 22, 2009

SOURCE: Gateway MX6960 stuck on "Press F11 to start Recovery"

Hi!
Excellent description of your problem, I am not familiar with sata drives much although I'm using one in this system I've just built, still an ide guy.
Anyway I presume you just want to install Xp and start afresh? as this is a refurbed machine?
I've never come across F11 before and have installed Xp on many systems.
Perhaps the operating system install files are corrupt?
Try removing the hard drive and make sure it is firmly secured in its caddy. Look for clip damage too as I've broken a tag off this Sata lead, replaced as wasn't secure enough for my liking.
When you start do you cold boot with Xp cd in drive press any key to boot from cd and allow Windows to load all necessary files for full installation.
If this is so and you still get the F11 after system re-booting 3 or more times during install I would be either looking a trying another o/s or hopefully not a machine fault?
I trust this is of assistance? please remember to rate my effort!
Paul 'W'
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SOURCE: ASUS eeePC 900 Keeps rebooting at XP load screen.

You're computer is booting that's not your problem. Its just not booting into Windows which is a different subject, so a boot disk will not do you any good. You have some corrupted files at the Windows end not the start up end. The only way to correct the Windows corrupt files is to use a Windows disc. So you'll have to buy/borrow a portable DVD/CD player and a copy of windows. Once the Windows disc loads then its just a matter of clicking on "repair" when the disc asks..that one of the drawbacks of netbooks..If you have any questions let me know..

SOURCE: installing windows on acer notebook help

The problem most likely - the laptop is old and the BIOS most likely cannot support a hard disk with a capacity of 120Gb.
Check the capacity of the old hard disk, most likely it is about 10 to 20Gb in size and you cannot buy one these days with these capacity.

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