- Jan 15, 2016
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So I have this really old toshiba satellite laptop I don't use anymore, but i do for times when the one I'm on now stops working or goes in downtime (I'm doing other stuff to it). I have an old windows xp cd that it came with and I wanted to put in a fresh install of windows xp since it has all this old junk on the laptop I didn't want anymore so I wanted to start fresh.
So here's what I did. Changed boot to start CD, put cd in, it started the windows xp setup. I told it to erase the old partition and format it using NTSC. I then chose that drive to install XP on. It started installing but somewhere in the middle a popup came up saying it doesn't have access to something. Eventually it installed, but now nothing works. I try command prompt and it says
'Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item'.
I can't even open user accounts in control panel. Tells me the same error as above but the path is now showing windows\systems32\rundll32.exe. I can't even setup a wireless connection. It's like nothing works. I'm going to reformat it using the windows xp install cd and try again, but is there something I should do first? I feel like there is some kind of lock that toshiba might have put on the hd to prevent a full format, but I don't see how that's possible..i dont know. Any ideas?
So here's what I did. Changed boot to start CD, put cd in, it started the windows xp setup. I told it to erase the old partition and format it using NTSC. I then chose that drive to install XP on. It started installing but somewhere in the middle a popup came up saying it doesn't have access to something. Eventually it installed, but now nothing works. I try command prompt and it says
'Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item'.
I can't even open user accounts in control panel. Tells me the same error as above but the path is now showing windows\systems32\rundll32.exe. I can't even setup a wireless connection. It's like nothing works. I'm going to reformat it using the windows xp install cd and try again, but is there something I should do first? I feel like there is some kind of lock that toshiba might have put on the hd to prevent a full format, but I don't see how that's possible..i dont know. Any ideas?
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