Bad boy Warrior Posted August 6, 2005 Share Posted August 6, 2005 Anyone know whats going on here.......im trying to install XP home on a HP PCwhich has a recovery disk.i insert the floppy disk and it starts to run, it comes to a point where it says:Extracting BIOSLOCK.EXE to C:\BIOSLOCK.EXEUncompressing 41408 bytes ok 1 files(s) This computer has no valid informationand i cant go past this - could someone tell me why please and how to resolve it?Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtwarrior Posted August 6, 2005 Share Posted August 6, 2005 HP cant load off of floppies sory, but your xp cd should be bootable. Just put cd in the tray and restart puter then install from there after a while use Nlite to take some componants out of xp and make an UACD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tester_pedro Posted August 6, 2005 Share Posted August 6, 2005 the cd was shipped with HP hardware?some big hardware manufacturers have special version of xp install cd that is dependant on hardware (the installation checks the hardware) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bad boy Warrior Posted August 6, 2005 Author Share Posted August 6, 2005 becuase its a recovery cd i have to put the floppy in first which then loads the CD rom contents to install the system. If i insert the CD then try to boot it does nothing (ive checked my boot settings)thanksp.s. yes the CD came with the hardware Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtwarrior Posted August 6, 2005 Share Posted August 6, 2005 must be something hp is doing to make sure everything is propietary hmmmm this sounds interesting. In the past I was able to load OS without floppies but boot off cd with HP interesting but must be vary frustrating to you.I will look further into this but I am sure there is a work around for this.I know you dont want to here this but This is 1 reason I dont use off-the-shelf puters. I like to choose the componants right for me,not for a company choose what is right for me, plus to upgrade or repair you must use propietary hardware/software.I am sure we can find a work around for this. It is is the CMOS/Bios it has some lock on it. If I suggest something at this point and it messes up your puter you will be very p***ed at me plus it may void your warrentity. Maybe someone more knowledgable can help.This will also help me as I repair computers and many I get people forget how important the restore disk is and either misplace them or destroy them. This is how I know how to do it on the older HP.Good luck and I will be standing by because this is something I need to know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtwarrior Posted August 6, 2005 Share Posted August 6, 2005 I thought I would bring this up so people would see this. Its a very interesting issue and a silution would be great but I am at a loss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamehead200 Posted August 6, 2005 Share Posted August 6, 2005 How long have you had your computer?One guess is that your CMOS battery might have run dry, causing the CMOS to clear itself...Anyone else? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wizardofwindows Posted August 6, 2005 Share Posted August 6, 2005 maybe u should fdisk wipe drive.once i ran nortons goback and later formatted when i rebooted goback continue to boot not allowing me to load xp it left some data in mbr or invisble paration so i fdisk every way and it worked .now not related but its a thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HybridShadow Posted August 7, 2005 Share Posted August 7, 2005 I dont think he has an orignal XP cd - HP are mungruels with thatThey have it so you cant give out copies of it and stuff like that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atomizer Posted August 7, 2005 Share Posted August 7, 2005 had a funny thing happen with my HP at work; it had XP home preinstalled, which i got entirely sick of, so i dumped the entire drive, including HP's back-up partition, and installed XP pro. after doing that the on-board sound card didn't work, nor could i ever get it to work. i slapped in another card i had lying around. point is, i can't stand any OEM box. they use the absolute crappiest hardware they possibly can to get the job done and they're nothing but a hindrance for the hard core tweakers. i guess i was lucky to even get another OS installed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HybridShadow Posted August 7, 2005 Share Posted August 7, 2005 Another funny thing about that is they had Xp Home on a work PC :S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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