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Started by mwright , Apr 24 2009 11:54 AM

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Posted 10 July 2010 - 09:38 PM

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Hi New To This But Pretty Good At Fixing Advent 4211 / MSI Wind
So If U Need Help Just Email Me At
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Posted 11 August 2010 - 10:19 PM

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View PostCrash_Override2010, on Jul 10 2010, 22:38, said:

Hi New To This But Pretty Good At Fixing Advent 4211 / MSI Wind
So If U Need Help Just Email Me At
[email protected]
And Please Provide As Much Detail As Possible
Don't Forget To Sign Up
Have got the infamous Advent4211 somehow (too many beverages) stuck in " Missing operating system" mode! Think buying the cd from techguys may solve the prob but wrried I may be wasting my cash. Can get it to start in boot menu and have tried usb floppy boot using xp sp2 but will only load 1st floppy. 2nd gives error 7  message. Could be bios prob or..... Any ideas ?? Ta.

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Posted 12 August 2010 - 07:37 AM

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View Postbackstreetb, on Aug 11 2010, 22:19, said:

Have got the infamous Advent4211 somehow (too many beverages) stuck in " Missing operating system" mode! Think buying the cd from techguys may solve the prob but wrried I may be wasting my cash. Can get it to start in boot menu and have tried usb floppy boot using xp sp2 but will only load 1st floppy. 2nd gives error 7  message. Could be bios prob or..... Any ideas ?? Ta.

right do you have a external dvd drive that the system can boot from also you could copy the windows xp installer over to usb and reinstall it from there Using this program http://www.megaupload.com/?d=R906OFEP
That is the only one i have found that actualy works to use that you will need a windows xp sp1/2/3 disk sp0 will not work
also have you checked the bios to see if the hard drive has boot priority
also i would not buy the disk from the techguys as it is a waste of money
email me  back for more help
thanks

If all that you need is the recovery media someone has already uploaded it on to megaupload it is in 35 parts of 50mb takes a while to download but it is worth it http://www.megaupload.com/?f=UXH5SG8J you will need odin you can get it from here
http://odin.en.softonic.com/
you will need a USB stick of min 2gb
THIS WILL ERASE ALL DATA ON THE USB STICK AND REPARTION IT

Edited by Crash_Override2010, 12 August 2010 - 07:54 AM.

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Posted 02 September 2010 - 07:11 PM

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Posted 05 September 2010 - 03:08 PM

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View Postcdtuk, on Sep 2 2010, 19:11, said:

http://rapidshare.co..._Key.part16.rar  Is no longer there, i got all 20 parts and that one is missing, can anyone upload this part ?? This is a nightmare trying to fix this.

thanks in advance

those files dont work they havent been working for Years (i tried to download last year) it was the same file but if you go to
http://www.megaupload.com/?f=UXH5SG8J
it has the same origional file but in a diffrent format (i.e you need to download it all again)
to use this file you will need ODIN http://odin.en.softonic.com/
hope this helps

Edited by Crash_Override2010, 05 September 2010 - 03:09 PM.

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Posted 02 December 2010 - 02:29 PM

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View Postpd.ryder, on Jul 18 2009, 10:58, said:

Here's one source from the MSI Wind forum complete with discussion and directions on how to compile a bootable usb drive.

And here's some very good, straightforward advice regarding what to do with the files... (again Kudos to MSI Wind forum):
I hope that helps folks out of a sticky hole :P



thanks for this you are an absolute star--took 2 days of trying to get the links from mega upload but got there in the end--got a message about the image file and hard drive (8gb usb stick)  being wrong size when using odin ignored it and went ahead anyway it then said this would cause file system problems--ignored that as well and completed loading odn file to usb stick--tried to install it and it failed halfway through---but that was enough to get me started tried it again and went into the tech guys tools somewhere and used checkdisk tools to fix file system--rebooted and installed again---totally successfull

this was a life saver--and am willing to upload the files if anyone else needs them as part 16 from rapidshare was missing and getting them from mega upload took 2 days

any one needs them let me know and i will upload them

many many thanks to you

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Posted 02 December 2010 - 02:41 PM

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Posted 02 December 2010 - 02:49 PM

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View Postpd.ryder, on Dec 2 2010, 14:41, said:

Glad it got you sorted @mcnumpty  :D

At least I did something right today... :P



have started uploading the files now to filefactory and am so pleased with your guide will let people who need them download them from my premium account so they get full speed without having to join or put up with adverts or only get so many files in a certain time etc--i get 24gb allowance per day so as long as theres enough gbs left they can help theirselves if it runs out it will renew the next day --will take a while at my upload speed but they should be available in a couple of hours

took me a lot of searching to find this so hope the files help others out

this is the odn file only  the programs in the guide are still available from the previos links

password is  leon  takes 15 minutes to upload each part so about 5 hours for all of them to be ready

http://www.filefacto..._Key.part01.rar

http://www.filefacto..._Key.part02.rar

http://www.filefacto..._Key.part03.rar

http://www.filefacto..._Key.part04.rar

http://www.filefacto..._Key.part05.rar

http://www.filefacto..._Key.part06.rar

http://www.filefacto..._Key.part07.rar

http://www.filefacto..._Key.part08.rar

http://www.filefacto..._Key.part09.rar

http://www.filefacto..._Key.part10.rar

http://www.filefacto..._Key.part11.rar

http://www.filefacto..._Key.part12.rar

http://www.filefacto..._Key.part13.rar

http://www.filefacto..._Key.part14.rar

http://www.filefacto..._Key.part15.rar

http://www.filefacto..._Key.part16.rar

http://www.filefacto..._Key.part17.rar

http://www.filefacto..._Key.part18.rar


all parts now uploaded

Edited by mcnumpty, 02 December 2010 - 07:18 PM.

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Posted 29 January 2011 - 11:15 PM

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View Postmcnumpty, on Dec 2 2010, 14:49, said:

have started uploading the files now to filefactory and am so pleased with your guide will let people who need them download them from my premium account so they get full speed without having to join or put up with adverts or only get so many files in a certain time etc--i get 24gb allowance per day so as long as theres enough gbs left they can help theirselves if it runs out it will renew the next day --will take a while at my upload speed but they should be available in a couple of hours

took me a lot of searching to find this so hope the files help others out

all parts now uploaded

I'm currently downloading all these rar files.

HOWEVER chunk 06 is missing!!!!

Can anyone help?

Edited by teamsmiffy, 30 January 2011 - 12:17 AM.

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Posted 30 January 2011 - 09:21 AM

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I've tried part six again this morning and managed to download it.

Ive extracted the ODN file to to a USB stick and copied the Odin software on too. I've booted the PC with a BartPE disk.

Using Odin I've managed to restore the ODN file over the entire drive.

When I reboot the TechGuys splash screen is followed by option to do a full destructive recovery.

When I take this option, it gets to stage three and the says that the image is missing!

Any one know what I can try next?

When the laptop reboots it says BootLoader Error

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Posted 30 January 2011 - 11:21 AM

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I'm all sorted now - just needed a USB stick to boot and my Cruzer stick wouldn't work.

Thanks to the host of the RAR images.

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Posted 30 January 2011 - 05:57 PM

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View Postteamsmiffy, on Jan 30 2011, 11:21, said:

I'm all sorted now - just needed a USB stick to boot and my Cruzer stick wouldn't work.

Thanks to the host of the RAR images.

glad the files helped you out--you are the 1st person out of all those who have downloaded them to take the time to let others know that the files work ok

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Posted 30 January 2011 - 06:13 PM

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View Postmcnumpty, on Jan 30 2011, 17:57, said:

glad the files helped you out--you are the 1st person out of all those who have downloaded them to take the time to let others know that the files work ok

No problem. I thought I'd be able to skip a step or two as I have a bootable Win PE disk and a USB DVD drive. It took a while to realise that the image was the whole drive.

I made the Windows 98 bootable memory stick from one of the first posts. I checked that booted to Win98 DOS. I then put the ODIN image on that disk. ODIN didn't like the USB Stick under W7, so I was able to boot the Windows PE and then use ODIN to dump your image onto a USB stick.

I then booted the USB stick into the Tech Guys image recovery mode, that seem to have put back both the hidden recovery and the main XP partitions complete with all the pre-installed software.

I'm just going though the windows updates etc etc.

So thanks again.

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Posted 30 January 2011 - 06:43 PM

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View Postteamsmiffy, on Jan 30 2011, 18:13, said:

No problem. I thought I'd be able to skip a step or two as I have a bootable Win PE disk and a USB DVD drive. It took a while to realise that the image was the whole drive.

I made the Windows 98 bootable memory stick from one of the first posts. I checked that booted to Win98 DOS. I then put the ODIN image on that disk. ODIN didn't like the USB Stick under W7, so I was able to boot the Windows PE and then use ODIN to dump your image onto a USB stick.

I then booted the USB stick into the Tech Guys image recovery mode, that seem to have put back both the hidden recovery and the main XP partitions complete with all the pre-installed software.

I'm just going though the windows updates etc etc.

So thanks again.

yeah it is a bit fiddly and time consuming--but main thing is it gets it all back in the end

i was thinking there must be a simpler way of doing it--so when i have the time i will look to see if its possible to make a bootable ghost image that contains the hidden recovery partition as well as the operating system partition and do away with the odin image altogether--i seem to remember needing a floppy drive to make bootable ghost images so will have to find my old external floppy or see if newer versions of ghost can make it bootable without one--that way all the updates could be added before making the image as there were a lot of updates to do

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Posted 25 July 2011 - 12:28 PM

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Hi folks hope somebody can help - i have just spent nearly 4 hours downloading the 35 seperate parts from the megaupload site mentioned earlier on (in post 42 i think) and i have tried to unzip it and i get an error message at about 53% saying
"!   C:\Documents and Settings\User\My Documents\advent usb\ADVENT4211_USB_Whole Key.z21: CRC failed in ADVENT4211_USB_Whole Key.odn. The file is corrupt"
so i am now completely stuck - can someone send me the completed odn file so that i can complete the set up of a usb stick alternatively can someone send me the files i need to copy onto the bootable usb stick so that i can sort the machine out - kind regards - dave edwards

Edited by pringlex3, 25 July 2011 - 12:29 PM.

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