RESTORING WITH RESTORE CD

My daughters computer, emachines T2245, is corrupted, I believe. I'm trying
to restore the original image with the restore CD but am not getting
anywhere. I put in the CD and nothing happens. I open the CD and click on the
program icon and Windows says it can't open the file. This is a "old"
computer, about 5 years, with SP1. I can't even update to SP2. Am I doing
something wrong?

Check your BIOS setting, it must be set to boot from the CD Drive (the first
device) before any other device such as the hard drive.

JS

"JDB69" <JDB69@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3C840F4B-CEA7-412F-ADD9-FCDC82A4C69A@microsoft.com...
> My daughters computer, emachines T2245, is corrupted, I believe. I'm
> trying
> to restore the original image with the restore CD but am not getting
> anywhere. I put in the CD and nothing happens. I open the CD and click on
> the
> program icon and Windows says it can't open the file. This is a "old"
> computer, about 5 years, with SP1. I can't even update to SP2. Am I doing
> something wrong?

Try going here and downloading the Users Guide
http://www.emachines.com/support/pro...es&model=T2245

It's a pdf file so you will need Acrobat Reader or better still Foxit
Reader.
Go to the section that explains the use of Restore CD's.



"JDB69" <JDB69@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3C840F4B-CEA7-412F-ADD9-FCDC82A4C69A@microsoft.com...
> My daughters computer, emachines T2245, is corrupted, I believe. I'm
> trying
> to restore the original image with the restore CD but am not getting
> anywhere. I put in the CD and nothing happens. I open the CD and click on
> the
> program icon and Windows says it can't open the file. This is a "old"
> computer, about 5 years, with SP1. I can't even update to SP2. Am I doing
> something wrong?

"JDB69" <JDB69@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3C840F4B-CEA7-412F-ADD9-FCDC82A4C69A@microsoft.com...
> My daughters computer, emachines T2245, is corrupted, I believe. I'm
> trying
> to restore the original image with the restore CD but am not getting
> anywhere. I put in the CD and nothing happens. I open the CD and click on
> the
> program icon and Windows says it can't open the file. This is a "old"
> computer, about 5 years, with SP1. I can't even update to SP2. Am I doing
> something wrong?
Doesn't the fine manual for the computer tell you how to use the restore CD?

If you are supposed to use this CD to install XP, then you are in fact not
doing the operation correctly.
Expecting to follow your path would be expecting XP to commit suicide, which
it will not do.
In this case, you must set the BIOS to boot from the CD first (as explained
in the fine manual).
Then you turn on the computer and follow the instructions.
By the way, you will lose all programs and all data that she has created
since the machine was delivered unless you
copy the data to CD (may be lots of CDs).
After you are done, you will need to reinstall all of the programs and
restore all of the data.
This procedure can take quite a bit of time.

And, if you no longer know where the fine manual flew off to, perhaps it
would be best to take it to a shop.

Jim

I'll check, thanks for the quick response, appreciate it.

"JS" wrote:

> Check your BIOS setting, it must be set to boot from the CD Drive (the first
> device) before any other device such as the hard drive.
>
> JS
>
> "JDB69" <JDB69@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:3C840F4B-CEA7-412F-ADD9-FCDC82A4C69A@microsoft.com...
> > My daughters computer, emachines T2245, is corrupted, I believe. I'm
> > trying
> > to restore the original image with the restore CD but am not getting
> > anywhere. I put in the CD and nothing happens. I open the CD and click on
> > the
> > program icon and Windows says it can't open the file. This is a "old"
> > computer, about 5 years, with SP1. I can't even update to SP2. Am I doing
> > something wrong?
>
>
>

Thanks, the user guid I'm sure has been long gone, lol. thanks again.

"Rich Barry" wrote:

> Try going here and downloading the Users Guide
> http://www.emachines.com/support/pro...es&model=T2245
>
> It's a pdf file so you will need Acrobat Reader or better still Foxit
> Reader.
> Go to the section that explains the use of Restore CD's.
>
>
>
> "JDB69" <JDB69@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:3C840F4B-CEA7-412F-ADD9-FCDC82A4C69A@microsoft.com...
> > My daughters computer, emachines T2245, is corrupted, I believe. I'm
> > trying
> > to restore the original image with the restore CD but am not getting
> > anywhere. I put in the CD and nothing happens. I open the CD and click on
> > the
> > program icon and Windows says it can't open the file. This is a "old"
> > computer, about 5 years, with SP1. I can't even update to SP2. Am I doing
> > something wrong?
>
>
>

one of the reasons why I'm doing this is that I can't do anything like copy
or move or use MS word or even delete the affected user from XP. But thanks
anyway.

"Jim" wrote:

>
> "JDB69" <JDB69@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:3C840F4B-CEA7-412F-ADD9-FCDC82A4C69A@microsoft.com...
> > My daughters computer, emachines T2245, is corrupted, I believe. I'm
> > trying
> > to restore the original image with the restore CD but am not getting
> > anywhere. I put in the CD and nothing happens. I open the CD and click on
> > the
> > program icon and Windows says it can't open the file. This is a "old"
> > computer, about 5 years, with SP1. I can't even update to SP2. Am I doing
> > something wrong?
> Doesn't the fine manual for the computer tell you how to use the restore CD?
>
> If you are supposed to use this CD to install XP, then you are in fact not
> doing the operation correctly.
> Expecting to follow your path would be expecting XP to commit suicide, which
> it will not do.
> In this case, you must set the BIOS to boot from the CD first (as explained
> in the fine manual).
> Then you turn on the computer and follow the instructions.
> By the way, you will lose all programs and all data that she has created
> since the machine was delivered unless you
> copy the data to CD (may be lots of CDs).
> After you are done, you will need to reinstall all of the programs and
> restore all of the data.
> This procedure can take quite a bit of time.
>
> And, if you no longer know where the fine manual flew off to, perhaps it
> would be best to take it to a shop.
>
> Jim
>
>
>

On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:35:00 -0700, JDB69
<JDB69@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>My daughters computer, emachines T2245, is corrupted, I believe. I'm trying
>to restore the original image with the restore CD but am not getting
>anywhere. I put in the CD and nothing happens. I open the CD and click on the
>program icon and Windows says it can't open the file. This is a "old"
>computer, about 5 years, with SP1. I can't even update to SP2. Am I doing
>something wrong?

Why do you think it`s " corrupted " ?

the computer has 4 user accounts on it, daughters, granddaughters, mine, it
was my computer at one time and a user account for ipod. when i first looked
at it I found the anti-virus had not been running nor had any windows updates
been down in a long time. it was full of malware and trojans. my daughters
account was doing all sorts of strange things with IE and MS Word, the ipod
account would not even open when I went to look at that. I tried downloading
Trend anti-virus but it would not because of the XP version was SP1, so it
said, and then the SP2 update failed to take and said that the XP might not
be up to par.

"bojimbo26one@aol.com" wrote:
> Why do you think it`s " corrupted " ?

> On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:35:00 -0700, JDB69
> <JDB69@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> >My daughters computer, emachines T2245, is corrupted, I believe. I'm trying
> >to restore the original image with the restore CD but am not getting
> >anywhere. I put in the CD and nothing happens. I open the CD and click on the
> >program icon and Windows says it can't open the file. This is a "old"
> >computer, about 5 years, with SP1. I can't even update to SP2. Am I doing
> >something wrong?
>

>

"JDB69" <JDB69@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks, the user guid I'm sure has been long gone, lol. thanks again.


Looks to me like it's still there. Did you actually look?

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