Packard Bell Easynote Boot Menu Key
Meri Thilmony
Recently bought secondhand Packard Bell laptop computer without hard drive, I put in a non-Packard bell hard drive and installed Windows xp sp2. There was no sound and I put all sorts of codecs and then later I installed XP home edition. So I have two xps, XP professional in English and another in Nederlands but now how can I remove the XP Nederlands to increase free space on my hard drive is the main problem. When I click on My Computer icom, I see drive C and D but I attempted to format drive D then the message says that it cannot be formatted. How can I solve this headaching problems? Thanks for your attention. Moses Quanteh Die hard xp lover.
Use the built-in Disk Manager. Right-click My Computer, left-click Manage, go to Disk Management, delete the uwanted partition, then expand the remaining partion using available spece left over from the deletion.
For example, if you have installed Windows XP Pro on the C: volume, and installed Windows XP Home on the D: volume, when you boot using Windows XP Home the D: drive is the boot volume. While D: is the boot volume, you cannot:
Format volume D:Delete the partition containing volume D:Make any changes to the partition containing volume D:
Of course, if you have a boot selection menu that allows you to choose which operating system is loaded, you can select the operating system that is installed on volume C:. Once that operating system is in control (provided that it is not using the D: volume for any critical files, such as a paging file or a registry hive), you should be able to format the D: drive.
Hi,
It seems you have two partions on your hard drive. Look at it like it is a pie ( your hard drive) the C: & the D: are slices of the same pie. One cannot be formatted without the other. As far as sound, you need to download drivers for your particular system and install them depending on your hardware requirements. I hope this helps.
When the computer boots up are you given the option of loading either one of those two operating systems? It also sounds like you created a partition on that drive and are using only one hard drive. If that is the case I would go into CONTROL PANEL /ADMINISTRATIVE TOOLS/?COMPUTER?MANAGEMENT/DISK MANAGEMENT, from there you should see both healthy drives, right click on the volume that you want to delete and you should see format, click format. This should give you a warning that all information will be lost if? you continue with format. I hope this was somewhat helpful in regards to your query.
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Kevin
Hello, yesterday I downloaded ZORIN core 15.3 64bits ,i was browsing the internet, after some hours the screen became black, like the screen wasn't working, i tried to switch off and on, the same, i took my frend's HDD, in hope to reinstall my previous windows 7lite, but now my computer totally blocked, i took another oitside moniter via HDMI and it appeared, i want this tobe resolved to remove Zorin and run back with my previous windows 7, i have an packard bell easy note/ intel CPU os the images but on my computer screen is still totally black and showed the message20210517_10095511421170 383 KB
You need to run file system check or fsck
You must Unmount the drive, first. You may prefer to use the Installation disk you installed Zorin with. Boot up in Try Zorin.
Then open a terminal and unmount your HDD
Please may you explain me deeply step by step, first i used usb flash disk for zorin installation, so second thing i can not use my computer screen it's not lighted i mean, over black my pc's screen, and i can not see when my pc is booting no way to see even when i'm pushing F2 to gettin' to the BIOS (still black, but when i tried my HDMI cable to monitoring with another screen, it's remain black for some minutes and until "Zorin" appear and blocked
I also tried to put my hard disc driver in my friend's computer
in hope to change the Os even from there and i get this page on the screen ( Zorin
Advanced option for zorin
Memorytest
Windows 7 Aero blue lite, i'm stressed, what to do ?
Windows Aero, it's a second OS, it's booting and after loading, it appears an error message, that one i know it's because the windows Aero OS was installed from another computer (packard bell) thing like uncompatibility of drivers between both computers (Toshiba and Packard bell)
It is still entirely possible that Graphics drivers are failing on the original computer, causing the black screen. But I have never heard of such occurring on Linux at Boot as you describe. The computer needs to boot up in order to init the Graphics Drivers. Prior to that, graphics is run off the Motherboard. So, you should see the Grub Menu before any graphics difficulties begin.
For this reason, it really seems to be a hardware issue.
Monitor on notebook (laptop):
Many Notebooks have an outgoing port for additional monitors. You can try to connect an external monitor to your laptop, then boot and test to see if that external monitor connected t your monitor gives proper display. If it does, then this is a very strong indication that something is wrong with the built in Monitor of the notebook. You MAY be able to set up the external display as your primary monitor as a temporary display (as a "band-aid") in order to regain functionality of the computer. But this would be tricky.
You can check the ribbon connection from the graphics board inside of the notebook to the notebook monitor - ensure it is secure. If it is splitting - replace it. If it is not securely connected - reconnect the ribbon cable, then test that the signal is going through by carefully powering the notebook on prior to reassembly.
If you can find nothing wrong with the connection or cable, you can check the Backlight of the Notebook monitor.
I think it very unlikely that installing a Linux Distribution contributed to the failing Monitor. It's just the age of the equipment and was bound to fail sometime.
Which part of the monitor failed - we do not yet know. I gave some links above for testing the backlight - you can run some more specific searches to find more.