My Pc, Is Full Of Useless/Corrupt Stuff Now.It Crashes Regularly.I Have Formatted The Secondary Partition Without Problems, But To Format The Primary, You Need The Windows Disc. Is There A Way Of Formatting Without Windows Discs Or Expensive Third Party Programs?
View 2 RepliesMy packard bell notebook model (easynote) E-3242 running windows XP. After installing SP2, XP wont load, even in safe mode. I already used cd-bootable Knoppix to copy all documents i needed to rescue. At this point a complete Re-install would be great, but alas, no install disk came with this notebook, And i lost the recovery discs i made. I do NOT have any XP disc available.How can I begin a re-install or similiar from the Hardisk with no Discs?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have windows 2000, it is driving me crazy!! I have tried everything, but it is not responding correctly, and it is extremely slow. It needs to be totally cleared out, but I have never done it before.
View 9 Replies View RelatedMy fifteen yrs old son formatted a drive before he knew he'd have to save downloaded emails five thousnad's of them from Shaw hot mail to Outlook Express Now the woman he did this for after building the computer for her wants him to retrieve the emails for her.
View 2 Replies View RelatedHow to recover data afer reformat(yes it sill happaned). I have W'XP Pro laptop with 100G drive , NTFS. I actually need pictures stored in pre formated "My Documents" folder, after getting virus one guy renistalled OS and did format during this, so now I have another My Picture folder with nothing on it.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am trying to copy to a new dvd-r disc and the system says disc not formatted. How to I format the dvd-r disc?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI am attempting to do a clean XP install. I deleting the existing partition and formatted the disc which had an error and now the disc is not recognized. How can I access the disc to format? This is on an older Dell Demension, I am using the OEM reinstall discs.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI have WIN XP PRO SP2 on my system. I have a 120G Harddrive. is it possible to reformst to a dual partition, 50% WIN 98 SE FAT the other half XP NTFS ? I dont have my original XP disk So I dont know if I will be able to reinstall my XP off of my backup disc.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a P4 550 running XP Pro.I'm trying to reconfigue my drive to use all it's disc space, I have a'Type 77' partition that is 7.6GB that I can't seem to do anything with.Partition Magic 8.0 can't seem to format it, convert it to NTFS, delete it ,or any other operation I try to apply to it.I've reformatted this drive 4 times now and the 'type 77' partition always remains.It does not have a drive letter, PM 8.0 lists it as Local Disc [*:]
View 7 Replies View RelatedI have tried to install a new xp pro sp3 disc on a new computer but have been getting errors in the installation. I have tried 3 different times but it says that the disc is missing some components and when it is final it does not work properly.
I finally talked to a tech person that asked me if I had another disc and I have an older sp2 disc. He said to install that but when I put in the key for my new disc it does not work with my older disc. I finally put in my old key and it worked fine. THe installation went off without a hitch but I won't be able to use my old key when I activate it. When I install the sp3 download will I be able to change my key to the new disc key?
I m now being told that setup does not find the hard drive. So following the instructions below:
http://www.windowsxphome.windowsrein...exfullpage.htm
I am trying to find the correct drivers for my system. I have a ASUS SK8V motherboard with a raid and SATA hard drives. So looking at the ASUS website I look for the correct driver
http://support.asus.com/download/dow...map&mapindex=5
but find it is 6.77Mb. How can I install this from a floppy disk?
i`m using maxtor 200gb divided into 4 partitions c: is for the operating system and d,e,f only data. i want to reinstall windows only on c: cause i think the registry is pretty sick CAN I FORMAT ONLY C: DRIVE AND REINSTALL WINDOWS WITHOUT CAUSING ANY DAMAGE TO D.E,F DRIVES?
View 2 Replies View RelatedMy 20 GB HD is the master. everything was installed properly and I had no problems.
Yesterday I decided to change computer cases so I decided to transfer everything to the new case. I checked and tripple checked the hardware hook up. Every button and light works properly. When I turned on the comp, it would try to load and then it would turn off and restart on me. Thats fine, I figured I could use a format. So i put in the Original XP CD to format. Took me to the usual blue screen where it loads its drivers at the bottom, however after it loaded the Press F6 to load Raid drivers and Press F2 to do whatever, it froze on me. I can't understand why. BIOS loads everything, and it recognizes everything. I tried the whole put in the windows 98 or ME boot disk, but it would not load the drivers and then it would load from the XP cd. And yes it was set to boot from A: drive first.
I want to uninstall it because I have windows 7 disc and I want to install windows 7 on my computer. I don't have installation disc for windows xp but I have for windows 7. Will there be an option to format xp on windows 7 disc? Or is there some software for uninstalling windows xp?
View 4 Replies View RelatedHow do you format a new, fresh, hard drive to NTFS? Without using an XP system or installation disk? I know for old stuff you can use fdisk and format in DOS.
View 3 Replies View RelatedJust formatted my computer, and now i want to install my windows, but when i am installing it, installation does not copy all files. setup canot copy the file: comctl32.dll and after installation i get a message winlogon.exe unable to locate component. and nothing happens after.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI was overclocking my cpu cause i replaced the stock fan with a cooling system and while i was overclocking i got a blue screen. So, i rebooted my comp and it says a file is missing or corrupt ( forgot what file something windows/system/config) and told me to repair it. and it wont let me use my windows xp disc. I set my cd-rom to 1st priority, im posititve my cd drives work, and the cd has only been used twice so im pretty sure it cant be that.
View 1 Replies View RelatedNeeded to repair XP from my XP Home CD which went well - however I now get
"Please insert Compact Disc labeled 'Intel Corp Installation Disc #1 into your CD ROM drive (D), and then click Okay" as the system came preloaded with only the XP Home disc and searching the Web has not identified a site explaining what the file is or where I can download it, if at all possible.
I have recently built a gigabyte 770 modo with SATA harddrive. When I try to reboot with the XP cd to intall, everything went fine but when the system restart in harddrive, it is giving me disc error.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI've got this old mobo Abit VT7. I want to install XP on it. However, the XP disc doesn't recognize SATA hard drives. So I downloaded official SATA driver from the Abit website http://tinyurl.com/kua5qz and tries to slipstream my XP disc following the instructions set forth here http://tinyurl.com/37anvn . I am not too clear how to incorporate the drivers from the official drivers, but Nlite seems to be able to find the drivers once I pointed it to the top unzipped driver directory, and I selected the XP folder for it. However, the newly created XP disc still fails to recognize the SATA hard drives. Alternatively, I believe I could have a boot floppy which would load the drivers in, then I launch the setup in the XP installation CD via command line. But I don't know how to create a boot disc which has those SATA drivers in.
View 6 Replies View Relatedim selling my now three year old pc but have hit a major and expected problem. When i got it it didnt come with an operating system disk (i have xp home) so now when i want to wipe it both for performance (as its got sooo slow and full of crap) and for data protection i cant just do a clean install.Is there any way i can wipe it (so it performs like it did when i bought it) without getting rid of the os. Preferably if its software i dont want to pay much or anything if possible.I just dont want to sell what should be a perfectly good machine to some poor soul who finds out that it performs like a Pentium 3800mhz.
View 7 Replies View RelatedDell Dimension 4600 C.. Running Windows XP Prof.. SP 1.. Computer is l - l/2 years old..Writing now from moms computer..(at her house). cause mine is toast.
What happened.. on monday. .sent some emails.. worked fine. and then decided to run chksks(sp).. it ran.. no problems.. BUT. when it rebooted.. I got a black screen.. Dont' remember exactly what it said.. but it was definately.. BAD NEWS.. couldn't do a thing with the computer. black screen stayed.(sorry.. its been so bad. the last 2 days.. I forgot to bring the paper- with what it said..(but there was something on the end of the message.. about had.dll..(not sure what was before
if you have a really big hard drive like 200 or more, don't you need to split it in half, so windows think it's actully two hard drive, but really it's one. just so windows can read the hard drive.how much is the limit till you have to spilt it in half?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI just restored my xp computer to an earlier system restore point.After checking the properties of my c drive I found that the used space on my hardrive had increased by about 3/4 of a gigabyte. I couldn't understand why that was, so I used a program called dirgraph to analyze, and chart what amount of space the individual directories each use on my c drive, and then took a snapshot of the chart.
I then undid my restore, and instead of regaining the .75gb back, I lost another .75gb. So I used dirgraph again, compared snapshots, and found where the extra space is being taken from. Dirgraph shows a subdirectory of c called "System Volume Information". It has a subdirectory called "restore". In it was another subdirectory with a large 5gb file, and 2 smaller .75gb files, named rp1064, and rp1066. One of the .75gb files was not in the snapshot I took before I undid my restore. I know the system restore put them in(it added the 1st when I did the restore, and the 2nd when I undid the restore). But the thing is that my system restore is set to use 12% of my hardrive, or 4010mb(max allowed). And the file(csystem volume information
i cant seem to get to windows with my hardrive. if you watch the clip below this is what happens.http://Internet.com/watch?v=jbzx2whzlos i put the hd back into my old machine and it worked fine.. so i reformatted with my old machine and put it back into my new computer and the exact same thing happens.if i try to reformat on my new machine - when it loads all the files off the cd and then trys to copy files to the hd i get this:my spec is:250gb seagate barracuda 7200.8 - ide
ati radeon x1300 xt intel core 2 duo e6400 2gb crucial 5400 dual channel gigabyte ds3
i have a labtec web cam with software but i have a dell mini and have no where to insert the disc, please help
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm running XP Home on a Sony VAIO. The PC has a partitioned HD: C (main), & D (storage). I defrag every night.
This evening, I got the dreaded "not enough disc space to complete disc defragmenter" message. Suddenly tonight I'm showing only 2% free space on drive C. I went in and changed my System Restore percentage from 12% to 6%. Now I'm showing 6% free space (but still can't defrag).
I shouldn't have had to change my System Restore percentage tho. I'm sure that's not the culprit. Up until last night the C drive was nowhere near this full. Something's there tonight that wasn't yesterday. ...A whole LOT of something. The Defrag graph is showing a nearly FULL C drive with a LOT of red "fragmented" files"
I've been doing a bit of downloading, but after it's on the desktop (part of C), I move it to the D storage drive (which has a LOT of free space remaining).
Something's fishy. I'm no expert, but I'm thinking I need to find some type of application to tell me what's suddenly on that drive taking up all this space. Anyone have any helpful suggestions?
neither wmp 11 or roxio recognizes a blank disc. when i try to burn a disc (dvd or cd) both wmp 11 and roxio tells me to insert a blank disc. i have tried putting a disc in first, or wait for the program to tell me to insert disc but neither way works!:
View 9 Replies View RelatedI get a little confused by terms like restore vs recovery, which are often interchanged incorrectly IMO -and then there are the terms bootable disc and startup disc, which can also get confusing - and I have seen other terms used also.
please explain exactly what you mean by the "bootable XP CD". I have a new XPsp2 home edition pc, and I had a millennium before that (which I made a "startup disc" for in add/remove programs - so I guess a startup disc is yet another term for boot disc - it was only a 3-1/2" diskette (less than a meg), and it would get my millennium to boot by typing "scanreg /restore" at a prompt that you eventually came to.
For my XP, I immediately made a Compaq "recovery dvd" (it took 2-dvd's) utilizing the "Compaq recovery cd-dvd creator" in start/programs/pc tools. This dvd (can also use cd's but it takes 8 or 9 cd's I believe) contains everything that is on the pc (from the factory), and which is also in the system recovery partition D:. There is also something called a "Recovery Tools CD", which I did not burn, since it did not seem necessary, after
reading about it in the "troubleshooting and system recovery guide" that came with my Compaq. I will burn that one to, if you can explain what it will do, that I can't ultimately achieve by using the "recovery dvd". The manual said that one of the things the "recovery tools cd" did was to remove the system recovery partition (drive D), so you could use it - but I'm sure there is another way of doing that from within the pc once you got it running using the recovery dvd - am I right - I've never messed around with partitioning, since I have no need to.
My new XP did not come with any "bootable CD" per se, and I made the "recovery dvd", as stated above. So please shed some light on what the "bootable XP CD" is that you refer to (because you said that a "restore Cd is really overkill" - I assume you mean the "recovery CD" that I mentioned). Also please provide your comments on the "recovery tools CD", and any other comments you have on the various terminologies I have mentioned above.
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?
View 12 Replies View RelatedAfter putting the windows XP CD in and rebooting, now whenever the computer is restarted I get the blue screen that says unable to find disc press F3 to exit setup. How do I stop this so computer will reboot normally?
View 6 Replies View Related