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    Has ANYONE gotten BartPE to work on P-7811FX?

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by HTWingNut, Feb 23, 2009.

  1. HTWingNut

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    Has anyone had any luck getting BartPE to work on their P-7811 FX? I keep getting a blue screen when I try to load.
     
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    Seeing as vista isn't supported, i would start there try running it under the windows xp compatibility mode.

     
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    No, I already had a BartPE CD, and try to boot off it. Doesn't matter if Vista is supported or not. It's worked on every PC I've tried so far.
     
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    First place I would check would be the BIOS (try setting the SATA controller to IDE mode (might be called "native mode") if the BIOS supports it). If this does not help (or there is no option in the BIOS), move to plan B.
    (plan B): Ok, this has worked for me with many different boot/recovery discs, on quite a few different systems/configs. According to everyone I know I am most definitely a geek :D , because everyone I know (even quite a few I don't) brings me their PC/notebook to fix; So I have just about every kind of adapter known to mankind at my disposal. Since you are on a notebook, your only other interface option (besides the SATA interface obviously), would be USB. What I do is grab a PATA DVD/CD drive (i have several laying around lol) and grab my "SATA/IDE-40pin to USB adapter", and put the boot CD/DVD in this drive and boot to it through USB. In my experience, on-board SATA controllers tend to not get along with alot of boot environments via disc (CD/DVD). This "should" work. If you don't have an old ide drive laying around like me, then you can pull your notebook drive out of you notebook (should only be one screw on the bottom of your notebook holding it in) and hook it up through the adapter. Just make sure you set up your bios' boot order to boot to USB first (or you can just hit F10 at the POST screen as soon as you see your LCD light up upon a cold boot, which will bring up a boot menu). Let me know if this works out for you.

    P.S. also before you try plan B, are you running stock clocks? If you are running anything other than factory clocks/timings/volts, some boot discs, namely live linux kernels, won't boot up in my experience. I definitely prefer linux based boot/recov discs simply because of their raw power. Here is the free "express" version of what I personally use. http://www.soft32.com/Download/Free/Paragon_Rescue_Kit_Express/4-239008-1.html

    First of all this is a boot disc, therefore XP compatibility mode is unavailable. If you would have read the quote you posted in your reply to OP:

    First line tells you: Requirements to build
    Obviously you haven't got a clue as to how a boot CD/DVD works.
     
  5. TANWare

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    Bartpe I don't think supports 64 bit windows, not sure if this matters when it boots if it trys to use or load anything from the installed os...............
     
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    @TANWare - BartPE itself won't use 64-bit windows, but if I create a BartPE disk based of 32-bit XP, should boot on any PC.

    @solo1420 - Thanks. I haven't tried for BartPE boot since I posted this, but I will try my USB DVD drive next time. Also, I have started messing with VistaPE which may have better success. BTW, I have NOT overclocked anything on my P7811fx.

    Part of my reason for wanting BartPE is for Acronis Disk Director and True Image. The boot disk created by Acronis for Disk Director and True Image won't boot either. It hangs while loading.
     
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    I'm not too familiar with PE's so I did not know if it try's to see the bootable partition and load anything from there..............
     
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    No. It is a bootable CD that is independent of any OS installed.