Need NIC enabled/installed to get files off before FORMATTING XP

[ChekTrac]

I am working on a Toshiba Satellite laptop, that for some reason already has selective startup selected, and alot of apps not loading at startup. (Windows things by the looks of it) Now, when I was booting up it was hanging on iomdisk.sys

I ended up selecting LAST KNOWN GOOD CONFIGURATION and it came into Windows XP HOME fine.

This PC is extremly slow, and all I want to do it get ti onto my network, and back up the files( all of them) to a different PC so I can wipe this one out.

NO NIC's are present. There is a RJ-45 port at the back of the PC however.
I found this out from booting into SafeMode selecting the Administrator instead of the original user, and my NIC's were there.
I have gone through add new Hardware(which it isn't new it is there) and it just locks the PC up during installation.

What I am getting at is: I need to transfer all of the files onto a different PC for reference for when I wipe this one out. I need sugestions as to how I can get the info off of here!!
The PC is a: Toshiba Satellite 2410 Sytsem Unit. Pentium 4 1.8 with 256M Ram
Thanks for any suggestions ahead of time.
Please Help

 

[alidabiri]

is your network working?
use network connection wizard.
what are you having problem with?

 

[ChekTrac]

My network is intact. I need to get this laptop on my current network.
No I have no NIC working what so ever. It is physically there,, but it isn't in the hardware list at all.
I am trying the WIZARD right now to see what that does for me

 

[ChekTrac]

Wizard does nothing

 

[G0AOZ]

Maybe you're going to be faced with different options if you can't get the on-board NIC working...

(1). Take hard drive out, connect up to another machine using a 2.5"/3.5" IDE drive adaptor.

(2). Connect up an external USB hard drive. Back up appropriate files.

(3). Plug in a PCMCIA ethernet adaptor and connect to your network.

(4). Use Micros$ft's DOS Network Client to make a bootable network disk. Take an image of the drive using Ghost and PQDI.


ROGER - G0AOZ.

 

[dglienna]

Maybe someone put XP on there after formatting the drive, and didn't use the mfg drivers. You could download them, and try installing them off a CD. I had to do the same thing after my mom got a PC with Linux on it, and bought XP. It still didn't work, until we ordered recovery disks from HP. Now, all is well.

-David
2006 Microsoft Valued Professional (MVP)

 

[Rick998]

What specific model of Toshiba Satellite is it? If we knew that we could probably determine whether the NIC drivers are built-in to XP or whether they need to be installed seperately.

 

[busybeez69]

The PC is a: Toshiba Satellite 2410 Sytsem Unit. Pentium 4 1.8 with 256M Ram

 

[scottew]

As someone already mentioned, if you can not get the NIC drivers installed, remove the hard drive from the laptop. Use a converter to hook up the laptop hard drive to your desktop as a slave and copy the data to your PC.

Then you can put the hard drive back in the laptop and reformat it.

 

[Rick998]

Sorry... you mentioned it was a 2410 in your orginal post. Unfortunately, the Toshiba website I looked at shows 15 different models of the 2410 series. I couldn't find a 1.8GHz model quickly so had a look at the 2410-703 as an example (1.7GHz and 2.0Ghz processors).

Although the manual doesn't identify it, the driver download shows it uses an integrated NIC based on an Intel chipset. As such, it's almost certain it can use one of the compatible Intel drivers already built-in to XP.

If you can see the NIC under 'Network adapters' in 'Device Manager' whilst logged on as Administrator in Safe Mode then you should be able to boot into 'Safe Mode with network support'. This should give you the connectivity you need to get the data off.

If the integrated NIC appears in 'Device Manager' and is enabled but shows an error then you should be able to double-click on it, go to the 'Driver' tab and use 'Roll back driver' or 'Update driver'* to repair it.

Alternatively, 'Uninstall'* it then use 'Scan for hardware changes' (in the 'Action' menu) to force a re-installation.

* - You may need the XP CD for this if there's no copy of the I386 installation folder stored on the hard disk.