wchang99
08-25-1999, 04:15 PM
I first posted a week or so ago about Windows not working correctly and an error
message with the registry on my cousin's computer, and am only now just getting back
to that. After doing some of the many various checks that people had suggested, I think
I'll still have to reinstall windows on her machine. Windows itself won't let me reinstall
from the Windows CD, as each time it's instead giving an error message saying that
settings in the control panel have changed since startup and that the system needs to
re-boot first - so I was looking into installing from safe mode or Dos mode...in which
case the system wouldn't be able to access the CD ROM, so I'd have to create a boot
disk. In fact, I was able to circumvent that by copying the contents of the Windows CD
onto the hard drive to install from there in Dos mode, and Windows setup was able to
run, but now it won't accept the registration number...I'm just using the OEM disc that
came with my Dell system and there's no mistake as far as the registration number
goes, but for some reason it's not working with her computer (Acer laptop)...The
reason for not using the Windows CD that came with -her- system is that it's the
Chinese edition, and it's also now currently in transit somewhere in a moving van
somewhere between Chicago and DC. The version of Windows that's -currently-
installed on her system is a standard English version that the IS department at her
school installed for her at some point when she'd taken it in for service sometime, and
they still have the CD over there, so we can't use that...Does all that make much
sense? My question is...Why isn't my OEM Windows CD working on her machine? Is
the CD actually Dell-branded and looking for a Dell tag somewhere on her bios or
something like that? Or perhaps it has to do with the fact that it's trying to install from a
copy I created in a folder on her HD rather than from the original CD?
Thanks a lot again for any help!
message with the registry on my cousin's computer, and am only now just getting back
to that. After doing some of the many various checks that people had suggested, I think
I'll still have to reinstall windows on her machine. Windows itself won't let me reinstall
from the Windows CD, as each time it's instead giving an error message saying that
settings in the control panel have changed since startup and that the system needs to
re-boot first - so I was looking into installing from safe mode or Dos mode...in which
case the system wouldn't be able to access the CD ROM, so I'd have to create a boot
disk. In fact, I was able to circumvent that by copying the contents of the Windows CD
onto the hard drive to install from there in Dos mode, and Windows setup was able to
run, but now it won't accept the registration number...I'm just using the OEM disc that
came with my Dell system and there's no mistake as far as the registration number
goes, but for some reason it's not working with her computer (Acer laptop)...The
reason for not using the Windows CD that came with -her- system is that it's the
Chinese edition, and it's also now currently in transit somewhere in a moving van
somewhere between Chicago and DC. The version of Windows that's -currently-
installed on her system is a standard English version that the IS department at her
school installed for her at some point when she'd taken it in for service sometime, and
they still have the CD over there, so we can't use that...Does all that make much
sense? My question is...Why isn't my OEM Windows CD working on her machine? Is
the CD actually Dell-branded and looking for a Dell tag somewhere on her bios or
something like that? Or perhaps it has to do with the fact that it's trying to install from a
copy I created in a folder on her HD rather than from the original CD?
Thanks a lot again for any help!