Can't Format New Laptop
Dec 31, 2008
So I just bought the HP Pavilion DV5 and it came (of course) with Vista. So I rounded up all the drivers I needed and prepared to wipe it and install XP. I have done this before on many computers.However I get an error message after it boots from the CD. I get the Windows setup screen with the blue and the grey bar at the bottom telling you what it's doing. But after that, instead of the menu I get:"A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer."It tells me to check for viruses and remove any new hard drives and such.
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Aug 10, 2005
My uncle was given an old Dell Latitude cpi laptop at work. Though, no discs or anything were included and the machine isn't formatted, it loads up to the password entry screen and I can't get passed this because they didn't include a password. Is there anyway to format without having a disk? There's no floppy drive, only a cd-rom.
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Jan 24, 2008
i have toshiba a100 laptop and when i try to run the recovery CD it starts by displaying "loading ramdisk image". when it finishes the computer just restarts and does it over again..
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Feb 22, 2010
I have a dell inspiron laptop 1525, and I want to formet it but my DVD is not working so,If it is posible to formet my laptop by using USB Pen drive vorth 2 GB , So Let me tell How to format laptop with USB .
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Jul 25, 2008
My laptop can't boot itself. When I try boot it, it flashes some error about ntdetect (or something) after the bios splash. And then it reboots on its own.
I've tried to boot from CD (with various software) but then I can't find the C: drive where it should boot (so I could copy the ntdetect file into its place). I could format the whole thing but I got some files that I really needed..
So is there any suggestions from anybody for this problem? Is there a way to copy the files from the hard drive or something.. I'm getting quite desperate with this thing
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Jan 20, 2007
I have a IBM laptop and has become very very slow lately(although i am not connected to the internet and i rarely use it).I'm thinking of doing a format but when i bought it (a year ago) I wasn't given any cd's.I have a cd from an another Siemens laptop I have for WinXP Home Edition-SP1 (Product Recovery cd-rom).Could i use this to format the other laptop?Will I need a cd for the drives?I have to find a cd or i can download the drives?
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Feb 1, 2005
So in the next couple of days, I'm going to be recieving my first laptop. And I want to know what steps I would need to take to completely reformat it, set up partitions, install XP Pro and install whatever you think would be the best applications for everyday use. Perhaps this is just wishful thinking on my part, but I also have assumed that it is possible to somehow create a backup file (on DVD, my other computer has a DVD writer) that lets you automatically install all these basic features whenever you reformat the computer (I also have heard this is called a ghost). The big problem I have is that I do not have a floppy disk drive. which I can't help but think may make the process a bit more difficult.
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May 21, 2006
I have a Toshiba Portege running Windows XP Tablet Edition. and those of you who own them know they don't have a CD drive.I forgot my passwords and I cannot figure out what they are. I have the files on my other laptop to format it. But the problem is I don't know how to do it without a CD drive.I want to try it from my 1 gig thumbdrive but I can't find a good guide to be able to put it on there and format it.
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Aug 6, 2009
Why is my XP laptop from Dell will write on CD-R and read it but will not write or format DVD+RW disks? I get a message "disk is not re-writtable" Does anybody have a similar problem?
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Jul 23, 2008
I have a 3 y old Thinkpad R52 which came with preloaded WXP Pro. After a while, I got recovery discs from IBM and I have created startup and ThinkVantage discs.I have restored my IBM to factory-condition few times before, but now I want to format it to the ground level to get rid of some files which have been piled up in the reserved-preinstalled sector of the hard drive. I just believe that it make my IBM even more fresh than "usual restoration".My question is: can I format my IBM from DOS environment by using startup disc and still use the restoration/recovery discs after that, to install XP and acompanying programs? Is there any body who have done it on any other PC brands; because I think that it can be the same for other makes.
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Oct 22, 2005
I have an Inspirion 1100 laptop. I cant seem to do anything with it anymore. I used to be able to get MSN Messenger to work and now it wont work at all. Every time I click a link the Can Not Find Page error pops up. SO I figure re-formatting it will help but I have no clue how to re-format it.
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Aug 6, 2009
Why is my XP laptop from Dell will write on CD-R and read it but will not write or format DVD+RW disks? I get a message "disk is not re-writable".
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Oct 8, 2005
I need to get my HDD reformatted with the help of a paid technician.Couple of weeks ago he used the quick format method & asked him if that would make any difference & he said really not.I have the doubts though. I kind of wonder why would Windows then give a choice if there really wasn’t any difference?
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Feb 26, 2006
how to convert a file in Wave format into a file in MP3 format? The file is a personal voice recording.
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Sep 22, 2007
Anyway i can download the CD? I m using Xps Gen 5 I got the cd of windows xp, but i get an error trying to format with it... I dont know if its my PC or the CD
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Jan 19, 2008
my pc died and was fixed by a friend, there are two partitions on the hard drive, what were the C & D drives, the C drive is 29.9gig and has remained unaffected. however, what was the D partition (which is now the H) is in RAW format and windows will not let me format it. i'm not worried about losing anything that may still be on it, but it's 427gig and me little C drive's getting full up fast
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Dec 13, 2008
I have a advent 9515 laptop and i have lost my recovery disc can any 1 tell me where to get a copy of it that dose not cost a bomb cause i have a virus on my laptop and need the disc.
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Aug 4, 2010
My laptop died and I removed the hard drive.I hooked the hard drive up to my new laptop via a SATA/IDE cable.I can see the old hard drive in the E drive and it appears that all the contents are there by the size of the hard drive (same as when I had it in the old laptop) but I can only see, actually view, a very small percentage of the drive. My goal: I want to transfer all old music, word documents and photos from old laptop into new laptop.
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Dec 8, 2005
I would like to format my hd's, to put on windows ME back onto my computer. I lost my windows xp cd, but i have my ME cd. so would someone give me some input on how to format
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Jul 22, 2005
Ive got a huge problem.I got a Dell Latitude Cpi off eBay with Windows 2000 and the CD. I got a Windows XP CD recently made a new install with it, it had an error so I ran the Update install over 2000. It had another error in the install but I told it to continue with the install. (Big Mistake) Now I have two incomplete installes on my laptop. I can't get on any Oporating Systems.I'll tell you what happens when I turn on my computer: It starts like normal with the Dell screen, then a error. The error says, Memory Read/write failure at 08000020, read 00EF00EE expecting 00EF00EF Decreasing avalible memory.
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Apr 9, 2006
i just have a question. i need to format my windows xp but i have a laptop and my cd drive is broken. can i reload windows with a USB cd drive? or will i need to load drivers before the system recognizes the device? if i can reload with USB are there any downsides to it?
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Nov 10, 2008
I have tried numerous times to re-format my hard drive on my XP desktop. Each time I boot from the CD and it goes through the normal process and then the screen goes black. The monitor is still on, there is just nothing on the screen. I have left it that way overnight thinking maybe it is working but it remains blank. No cursor, nothing.
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Dec 26, 2005
I have formatted the drive on my laptop and reloaded the programs from disk (XP) and have a few questions.
1. Reloading the programs from disk was pretty straightforward but downloading and installing the Windows service packs, updates and patches etc took hours (on broadband).
Can I back up these updates to disk so in future I can save all the downloading time and what exactly do I save? I looked in the files and just don�t know where to start!
2. After loading the various programs from disk and a few others such as AVG, Zone Alarm etc but prior to downloading the Windows updates the disk space used was about 3Gb. After downloading the service packs etc the disk space used jumped to over 9Gb! (yet, when I add up the individual folder sizes, it comes to only 4.4Gb)
Do the Windows updates take up an extra 6Gb? And where are they hiding?
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Oct 24, 2006
My son couldn't find the original XP cd that came with his Systemax, so we bought a new XP Pro OS and installed it. While I was working on the connectivity issue, we found the original XP cd. Since I had not activated the XP Pro, I'd like to switch to the original XP and save the new one for a future laptop.
But, when I went to install the original, I didn't seem to have much of a choice because it was about to install the original on the same partition as the XP Pro . . . so I quit, and tried to format the HDD again, but since I was using the Command Prompt, MS said that the disk was already in use so that I couldn't format it.
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Nov 24, 2007
My kids kicked the cord for my keyboard and it came out, so when I tried to put it back in the power cord came out, then when I tried to get onto my computer I ran into this problem. I went to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307545/en-us I can't even do step one, I got to the right directory, did the md tmp then tried to copy the files. It said it didn't copy them, so now what do I do. I have the win cd, but I just formatted my puter 2 months ago, and haven't been able to get my other hard drive in to save my pics and stuff, so i really don't want to format to fix this prob.
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Sep 2, 2005
Windows will not format. It will format in a sence, but not fully, I have a hard drive loaded with viruses, I can see them, I can see all their processes running (roughly 20) but I cannot get rid of them. I have formatted 4 times, and they are still there, I do not know what to do
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Jun 3, 2005
Trying to help a friend but I am having troubles attempting to format this HP machine. I wonder if the HP software changes the way windows work, anything you guys know about HP?
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Apr 10, 2005
i just bought a hp pavilion desktop that apparently has the sasser worm on it as i kept getting the countdown popup. i put on avg antivirus and removed 19 different worms and virus's. i then ran ad-aware and spybot s&d and removed over 400 entries. i have researched and applied how to get rid of the sasser virus but i still get the countdown popup occasionally. i also can not get any updates from microsoft to download. all i get is an error. since it still does odd things every now and then i think the best bet is just to completely format the hard drive. i want to get rid of everything including the hidden partition hp puts on for recovery. i received all the recovery cd's that came with the system when it was originally bought. i do not have a stand alone xp home cd for it. is win xp home on those recovery disks and are they all i will need to format the hard drive?
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Jun 11, 2009
I am trying to format my computer. I have the cd and cd key to do it but for some reason my dvd drive dos'nt want to read any disk. So I can't format it. I think that I have a virus that is doing this to my dvd drive. So can I format a different way besides the disk.
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Jun 14, 2006
However I need a software to format HD, to install Windows XP Pro, but I don't want to use the CD to format.. Is any other program or software so I can use instead the Windows CD?
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Mar 4, 2007
When I start from the CD at start up, it says cannot find CD-ROM drive.
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