- Oct 2, 2003
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I ran into a snag trying to repair a computer for a customer at work. It seems like it should be fairly easy but they don't give me enough time to troubleshoot stuff at work.
The computer is an hp a1310n desktop.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/s...=1815823#N2287 (driver page)
The hard drive was dead. I replaced the hard drive.
I ran the original system recover disc. The driver disc is missing so I planned on manually downloading the drivers later until I ran into a little problem.
Problem 1) The recovery disc installed windows on drive I instead of C! I'll describe the reason this is a problem later..
Problem 2) When I run the installer for the chipset drivers it says I need to be logged in as administrator. I booted up in safe mode as administrator and it's still giving me the same error.
Problem 3) When I install the graphics card driver it says there is not enough space on drive C to complete the installation. (do I need to format and start over and hope the recovery puts windows back on c next time? I don't remember even being able to pick a partition when I ran it.. it just did its own thing)
Maybe I can throw a usb flash drive in and change its drive letter to c to trick it?
A built-in card reader got assigned to drive c. I've changed it but apparently I cannot change the boot drive letter. bleh.
Yeah this is stupid, and it's annoying me. I'm just trying to figure out the easiest way to go about this so that I can get it knocked out tomorrow as quickly as possible.
I appreciate it.
The computer is an hp a1310n desktop.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/s...=1815823#N2287 (driver page)
The hard drive was dead. I replaced the hard drive.
I ran the original system recover disc. The driver disc is missing so I planned on manually downloading the drivers later until I ran into a little problem.
Problem 1) The recovery disc installed windows on drive I instead of C! I'll describe the reason this is a problem later..
Problem 2) When I run the installer for the chipset drivers it says I need to be logged in as administrator. I booted up in safe mode as administrator and it's still giving me the same error.
Problem 3) When I install the graphics card driver it says there is not enough space on drive C to complete the installation. (do I need to format and start over and hope the recovery puts windows back on c next time? I don't remember even being able to pick a partition when I ran it.. it just did its own thing)
Maybe I can throw a usb flash drive in and change its drive letter to c to trick it?
A built-in card reader got assigned to drive c. I've changed it but apparently I cannot change the boot drive letter. bleh.
Yeah this is stupid, and it's annoying me. I'm just trying to figure out the easiest way to go about this so that I can get it knocked out tomorrow as quickly as possible.
I appreciate it.
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