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    Solved! Trouble booting windows XP on Dell Inspiron Mini 10 after Troubleshooting/ attempted system restore.

    I've come upon the solution by away. My initial instinct to install W7 instead of W XP has turned out to be a smashing success. Simply had to wipe the recovery partition from the Windows Installation partitions menu, and install W7 fresh. Sound, network,. video all drivers working. already...
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    Solved! Trouble booting windows XP on Dell Inspiron Mini 10 after Troubleshooting/ attempted system restore.

    To anyone else who happens upon this thread, is "https://restore.solutions/en/dellinspironmini10/" legitimate/reputable? It was the second google result when I searcehd for restore disc images and Im just wary as it seems far too good to be true. I especially am skeptical now. It says it...
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    Solved! Trouble booting windows XP on Dell Inspiron Mini 10 after Troubleshooting/ attempted system restore.

    Im currently trying to dig around, see if I can find some sort of disc image of the recovery disc you mentioned for this specific model. Thanks
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    Solved! Trouble booting windows XP on Dell Inspiron Mini 10 after Troubleshooting/ attempted system restore.

    "you need xp mate. there are no drivers for win 7 for that notebook." I expected some issue of the sort may arise.
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    Solved! Trouble booting windows XP on Dell Inspiron Mini 10 after Troubleshooting/ attempted system restore.

    Got a little update here. I plugged the HDD into my own external sata ports and installed windows 7. The installation went without a hitch and I was quite hopeful but I am still stuck at the same boot loop It gets me to the screen with he blue "Dell" bar at the top (where I would normally...
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    Solved! Trouble booting windows XP on Dell Inspiron Mini 10 after Troubleshooting/ attempted system restore.

    there's no other way? It was bought second hand, doesnt have a disc drive and I do not believe came with a cd when he purchased it. Ive done a little digging and heard about a free piece of software that might be helpful called Lazesoft, but the only sources I can find are softonic and...
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    Solved! Trouble booting windows XP on Dell Inspiron Mini 10 after Troubleshooting/ attempted system restore.

    Having issues attempting to repair an old dell laptop. Inspiron Mini 10. The first issues arose after receiving an alleged update to Firefox..They manifested themselves in an error when attempting to launch MFF. That is to say, it wouldn't start. It said the runtime was not found. I then...