Edited by richtea, 20 January 2010 - 04:35 AM.
Realtek boot agent issue?
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Posted 20 January 2010 - 03:04 AM
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Posted 20 January 2010 - 06:20 PM
Rich
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Posted 23 January 2010 - 01:46 PM
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Posted 23 January 2010 - 08:07 PM
All I can surmise from this is the optical drive is not working correctly, at least as a BIOS boot device.
If you're sure the XP and Ubuntu discs are bootable then the only alternative I can come up with at the moment is to remove the hard drive from the laptop and either install it another laptop and wipe it there or buy a 2.5" to 3.5" HDD adapter kit and mount the laptop drive in a desktop system and wipe it there.
I got one from GoHarddrive.com recently for $9.99 and it works well.
G05-0081 2.5" Notebook Hard Drive to 3.5" Desktop Hard Drive Bay Mounting Bracket Kit / Adapter 1 $9.99 $9.99
The real problem is, how are you going to reinstall XP if you can't boot a CD? You could try creating a bootable USB XP Install flash drive. I did this and it worked for me with a Dell Mini 910 that had no optical drive. You could also borrow an external USB optical drive and use that to try to install from.
Bootland.net - install XP from USB
Windows in you pocket - TomsHardware.com
I would do the above first so you know you have a way to reinstall before wiping the drive.
Rich
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Posted 24 January 2010 - 05:10 AM
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Posted 24 January 2010 - 05:10 PM
Rich
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Posted 25 January 2010 - 01:38 PM
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Posted 25 January 2010 - 05:27 PM
Rich
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Posted 01 February 2010 - 12:55 PM
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