Advent Roma 3000 W7

[tjboo]

Does anyone have the files for the Windows 7 recovery on a Advent Roma 3000? My friend's laptop is screwed. I have an Advent Roma 2001, do you reckon my recovery CD would work for his? Also, does it ask for you W7 serial key again, because his has worn off on the bottom :S

[Ranibeke]

Have you tried to recover the notebook from the hidden recovery partition on the hard drive?
Press F8 repeatedly as you switch on and this screen should appear



Select Repair Your Computer and follow the instructions. If it doesn't work contact the official support The TechGuys if it is still in warranty (12 months)

The loss of the key is not an immediate a problem as the factory installation will use common key but should have been written down as the stickers often get damaged.
Without it you do not have a "legal" copy of the operating system.

It may be possible for The TechGuys to find the key from the serial number of the notebook.

Edit
THAT WAS A WASTE OF MY TIME HAVING READ YOUR OTHER POST.

The symptoms described here viewtopic.php?f=1&t=7096&p=18952#p18952 would suggest the hard drive has failed.
Try downloading Drive Fitness Test from HGST, burn to CD and check the drive

[tjboo]

I've made a recovery disc on my Advent Roma 2001 and trying it on there and its kind of working, going very slowly though. The Microsoft Corporation loading stuff came up and now there's just a big cursor over the blank screen. Hoping it will load somehow. Also earlier I tried using my SATA to USB kit to rescue the data off the HDD. All the files appeared but it slowed down my laptop so I moved it to my fast running PC and now it won't show up on either of them :/