Computer has windows 98 and xp home sp2 on it, patitioned c: (fat32) & e: (ntsf). Would like to wipe hard drive clean and do a new install of xp home only (have discs), but I am unable to reformat drive. Get error message to quit disk utilities or other programs on "e:", and widows was uable to reformat on "c:". What do I do?
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one of my staff members gave me his pc to reformat because he is having "issues" Before I post what I know of his system specs these are the cds/hard discs he gave me;
-Winxp SE
-pc chips motherboard vr 8.29a CD
-Win org CD (?have no clue about this one
-CD-ROM Device drive Hard disk
-a Keyboard hard disk
Thats it, no Hard drive disks or anything--Here is what I was able to gather for his specs;Im just trying to reformat via the xp cd before it does this I recieve the most loved error-"A PROBLEM HAS BEEN DETECTED AND WINDOWS HAS BEEN SHUT DOWN TO PREVENT DAMAGE IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL.So basically I cant reformat from CD-I asked him if he had a third party disc(HD disk) so I can just format the HD, then install windows but he does not have one.
I have a problem, I change the boot sequence to boot from CD, and I restart my computer, after restarting then it come to this message "Press Any Key to boot from CD" and I press the key and it not responding.So I hope you guy have a solution to help me out.
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View 3 Replies View RelatedI have Win XP home installed as OEM software on the C drive of my PC.
I also have this OS as a Norton Ghost file supplied with the PC as a
"Recovery CD".
I have installed a second hard drive designated "D"
This all works fine.
I wish to install Win 2000 (which I have on a Microsoft cd) on the second HD.
I would then hope at boot - up to be given the choice of which OS to load.
Can anyone tell me what is the simplest way to do this?
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View 1 Replies View Relatedprovide me with a beginners guide on how to re-format the PC, Preferably with images
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View 6 Replies View RelatedOnce I deleted the Windows 7 partitions and formatted the drive, the computer restarts to start the installation... Well sure enough I blue screen every time.
when i go back to 7 just to get the computer running. Here I don't blue screen but I get an error everytime during installation. Says something like it seams to be missing files or files are corrupt.
After some research about the BSOD,Sure enough it worked and XP installed. My issue now is...after I installed all the drivers and did the mandatory restart for them, now I get some other BSOD every time. Unfortunately, it's one of the quick ones where it just flashes and restarts.
I have an 80 gb drive currently running Win 98 SE but I want to install Win XP Pro. Do I need to reformat or can I simply install Win XP Pro over the existing OS?
If I reformat (which I think you're going to say is the preferred route) do I need a Win XP boot disk?
A friend brought over a dell with windows xp.She goes to college and also has this computer at home.Well,seems that a family member visited some sites and now she has unwanted popups.She wanted me to reformat this for her.I do not believe reformatting will solve the problem.I was considering cleaning off all the temp files,install spybot and adaware,and installing a good popup stopper.
View 5 Replies View Relatedok I have a bunch of crap (virus') on my computer and i am in the process of tryin to fix it. i.e. spybot, ad-aware, spyblaster, and HJT. One problem im havinf is that i cant go to any web pages. so i have to do all this then bring the results to work so neeedless to say its taking some time. well anyway i was wondering since my computer is pretty new would it be ok to save the few things i wanna keep on a flash disk and reformat and reinstall windows media center edition? Or would last known good configuration do the trick (get all the crap off)?
View 14 Replies View RelatedI just recently reformatted my computer, using Windows XP Professional, and have been having a couple problems. As I try to install the drivers, InstallSheild Pops up and then goes to an error stating: RPC Server Unavailable I've tried researching how to fix this and I've found a thread with the exact same problematic tried going into services and starting the DCOM services. It is set to automatic, but will not start automatically. As I try to manually start, it comes up with another error saying "It was not possible to start the DCOM Server Process Launcher service in Local Computer. Error 1053: The service didn't respond to the requisition to start or control in time". After this, for some reason, I'm able to install whatever I was trying to before.
However, after I reboot my computer, I have to do this process again because the DCOM service is not started. I want to figure out how to get the DCOM service to always be on. I feel like it might be a problem with the win32 folder because when I click the properties of the DCOM service and go to the last tab, an error message comes up and says Win32: RPC Server Unavailable.
I just reformatted my computer and now I have no sound. In my device manager it says there is a conflict with my 'Multimedia Audio Controller'. I don't have any drivers. Is there something I can use to find out what I need or even a known driver I can install. I tried to install somethihng called'Vinyl AC'97 Codec Combo Driver' but that doesn't work and it keeps giving me a warning that it "has not passed Windows Logo testing to verify its compatibility with Windows XP."
View 9 Replies View RelatedThe computer is a Dell Inspiron 8500 Notebook, running Windows XP SP2.I reformatted my hard drive recently and reinstalled XP. The sound worked fine before the reinstall, and not at all afterwards. Everything else seems fine. Thinking the problem was certainly a driver issue, I downloaded the latest relevant sound drivers from Dell. No dice. Called tech support - the representative took over my computer and, as I watched, did the same thing I had just done: not surprisingly, no dice again. He then told me that buying a PCMCIA sound card would certainly, "no doubt about it" fix the problem. I did so: a SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS. No dice. With both my internal sound card and the PCMCIA, in the Device Manager I get a yellow exclamation: "Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)." This is bollocks, since I (and the Dell guy) successfully installed the (AC97) driver several times, and I did the same thing with the PCMCIA card. Dismay and frustration were again the only results. After reading some forums, I found and installed the latest chipset drivers from Intel (the 845MP chipset), thinking that this might be the problem: again, no dice. I hate to ask for your time, tech gods, but I am all out of options. My knowledge has reached its limit and I can turn only to you in my hour of need. Please help. SOS.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI reformatted my computer for the means of a reinstallation. The BIOS does not recognize the cd drive. So I go to the setup utility. None of the Primary Drives are recognized. They are all classified under unknown device. The boot sequence is checked to check cd rom drive.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI want to reformat my PC but I don't have the original Windows XP boot disc.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI'm currently trying to re-install windows xp pro on my hp pavilion laptop which previously was running xp pro. I have a hp windows xp operating system cd that I'm trying to use to re-install. Every time I try and start up from disc, it tells me to insert the Restore Plus CD. I do not have the restore plus cd. If I try and re-install while running windows, it will start all the required steps and then stop at the blue screens saying it had to stop to protect computer. so my question is.Is there a way to reformat my hd and re-install windows xp pro?
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View 14 Replies View RelatedI am having a challenge reformatting the HD for a clean re-install of Win. XP Home SP2. I placed the Win. XP SP2 cd in the drive and booted up the system. Screen 1 came up (Windows Setup) & I pressed enter. Screen 2 came up and all the various items loaded ok. Before screen 3 came up the system had total shutdown with all loss of power-it crashed. Upon reboot a black screen came up with this information. Select operating system to start.
(1) Win. XP Home Edition or (2) MS Win. XP setup. Selecting option
(2) MS Win. XP setup brings up a black screen with this message on it."Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: <windows root>system 32 hal.dll.Please re-install a copy of the above file. Can you please advise on how to do this so I can reformat and re-install
I would like to reformat my HDD as the main bug bear is that it takes about 5 minutes to boot up.I have a legal instal of XP Pro on it at the moment, but whilst getting all the disks together, i cannot find the XP disk anywhere.Any ideas on how i can reinstall Xp pro without the original disk?
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