Okay I bought a universal power lead as the one I had broke, the wire snapped etc etc.
It arrived today and cut a long story short - it's give me BSOD. At first it loaded up alright, was charging but kept cutting out.. obviously not enough charge in it for the PC to stay alive, but it stayed on. Eventually it cut out the laptop, when booting it back up with a different volt adapter in the power supply, I get a BSOD after the Windows XP screen.
unmountable_boot_volume was the error issue.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q297185/
Tells me it is something to do with the wrong cable;
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Note If you receive this error message when you restart the computer for the first time during an upgrade to Windows XP, your original operating system still works correctly. In some cases, a message appears on the BIOS report screen that states that the wrong cable is being used. However, you may not see this message on computers that have a fast startup time.
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I take it that it's because the wrong power supply or whatever is being put into the laptop?
I'd just like a bit more information on it if you can.
- Can I fix it without buying a new power cord?
Is it even anything to do with the power supply, or is the "wrong cable" message something completely unrelated to power?
I've tried a few steps what people have said on Google, booting up the XP disk and running chkdsk/r or whatever. I've tried doing that, I can't even get to the part were I have to press R to repair. It loads up a load of files then just cuts out when it's probably just getting to that page. I've tried it 3 times now.
If you want any more info please ask, I'm desperate for a bit of help. :]
Cheers,
Danny