I recently had a few problems on my laptop, so I reinstalled windows without formatting the drive. Now I guess the windows cd I used had already been installed on my other computer leaving me unable to log on to my laptop because windows thinks my product key is "invalid" and won't activate. So is there any way I could undo this installation of XP leaving the old working one?
View 13 RepliesI may have to reformat my entire hard drive and reinstall a totally new, legal copy of either Windows XP Home SP2 or Pro SP2. Do NOT ask me how I know this! IF I want to format c:, what's the right process and sequence for doing this, and then reinstalling Windows from a CD?
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View 9 Replies View Relatedi have a system running Win XP Pro (Core 2 Duo, 2GB Ram, 250 GB Sata Hdd) software installed Adobe Photoshop, Second Copy & Avast. It had been running fine for the last 6 months and then all of a sudden today on switching on it showed the windows/system32/config/system is corrupt or missing. I reinstalled Windows XP and the other mentioned programs and it ran fine for about 20 mins and then froze up.On a restart it showed the same error as mentioned above. So i quickly reinstalled everything AGAIN..same deal, ran for about 20 mins and began showing the same error.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have recently reinstalled windows and since then i havent been able to get any sound except the warning beeps from the computer itself. my speakers dont work. The error message, 'There are no active mixer devices available. To install mixer devices go to Control Panel, click Printer and Other Hardware, and then click Add Hardware' pops up everytime I try to open the Volume Control.I have tried downloading various drivers which many people have suggested bute when I try this message pops up:'Microsoft QFE Update (835221)
This is only to be used on HP Consumer PCs preinstalled with Windows XP. Your PC does not meet this requirement, so update is being aborted. but my PC was preinstalled with Windows i've just had to reinstall it again!
I decided to "reinstall" Windows XP on my laptop. I stuck the reinstall disk into the computer and let it go. After about 1 hour of "reinstalling", the computer restarted, after that, the window was only one half the size and I couldn't change the monitor resolution size. (but, it showed the old desktop information so I knew right away that I hadn't actually reinstalled to the original state, but just reinstalled over the current desktop).
I restarted the computer to see if the window screen would enlarge to the full size. It did return to the full screen size, but Now, it freezes at the part of startup where the screen says "Windows is starting up". I left it on for 20 minutes and it was still frozen. SHould I insert the Windows XP disk again, to start over or what? Or click reboot after hitting the F2 button??
For some reason for a couple of weeks now my computer hangs all of a sudden no matter what I'm doing. Sometimes I am watching a movie, sometimes playing a game, and sometimes, I just leave it open coz a download is running, I come back and check 10 minutes later, the computer has hanged. I have noticed that when this happens, the hard-disk light comes permanently on.
Ran AVG and found few viruses, removed those, no avail. Ran malware/spyware remover, found few, removed those, no avail. Formatted C drive, reinstalled windows, PC ran well for 10 days, problem came back. Initially had 512 MB RAM, changed it to 1GB, formatted PC again, PC ran well for 10 days, problem back again. Can't run checkdisks and all because the comp hangs every single time.
I have a PC with Windows XP home. I am selling this PC without windows and want to format my C: drive. In the old days I would get Windows 98 to create a Bootable disk with a format command but Windows XP does not allow me to do this, I think. So what is the best way to format C: before selling my PC.
View 12 Replies View RelatedI'm thinking about Re-formatting my computer. i seem to get a new pc every few months,lol, so i have never actually done it before. My current pc is a stor brought one and unfortunatley i didn't not get the Windows XP cd when i purchased it. for the Windows cd and was wondering if there are any other ways to Re-format my pc, i have hered about getting an OEM version of XP, will that be ok
View 5 Replies View RelatedOn my pc, I had one drive with Windows 98 on it, and one drive with Windows XP on it
Windows 98 was on drive C: XP was on D: They were set up so I could choose which one to boot to at start up I wanted to get rid of the 98 entirely, so I edited the boot ini, just removing the entry for windows 98 after restarting the computer, everything was fine....going directly to XP so I wanted to format the 98 drive so I could use it as additional storage, which I did using norton partition magic, I then shut down my computer......turned it back on.....and I get an error saying: NTLDR is missing.
I recently reinstalled windows XP home edition to counteract a virus. Everthing's working fine now from what I can tell, except sound. the troublshooting provided by windows so far hasn't turned up anything and the updating from windows' site hasn't helped either. my control panel says that only my usb device is being read although the speaker system is hooked up exactly as before.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have two drives, one for data and one for windows. I had installed vista on C: but after it not liking my programs ive reinstalled XP on what was the C: drive. Its reinstalled fine but now the C: drive is D:!!Is there an easy way to rename the drive?
View 7 Replies View Relatedwhen I zeroed and reinstalled windows XP my hard drive came up as drive E:? I want it back to c: is there anyway to do this?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI completely reinstalled my Win XP OS and i saved my "necessary" files(music, videos. etc...) to an external hard drive but i accidentally encrypted them and now i have to figure out how to decrypt them so i can copy them to my new OS.
When i try to just uncheck the "Encrypt contents to secure data" box i get the error
I want to format my hard drive ( been two years ) ! It is now running XP Pro, which I do not have the discs, and I want to switch back to XP Home, which I have one disc that came with the computer !I've tried booting up with the disk, so that I can format my hard drive, but nothing happens!
My hp dvd 1140i will not burn my movies it keeps saying that the disc needs formatting.
View 1 Replies View RelatedHow can I unformat a flash drive? I formatted it to make it bootable to try to run feather linux which didn't work. Anyway, I am trying to get it back to where it was before. I tried HP's usb format utility, but it doesn't see it as it won't even show up in my computer. it does show up as a storage device to unplug but that is all.
View 11 Replies View RelatedI need to know if I can take a drive out of my friend's tower, and put it in my tower as a slave drive to format it, will it be a bootable drive back in my friend's tower? Or will it still read as a slave drive with no OS files? I have to do this because my friend lost his Win XP Pro SP1 disk, and all I have is a Win XP Pro disk with no SP on it, I have a separate downloaded SP1 file, but if I try to use that, it will chop their harddrive from 200 gigs down to 130'ish, like it did with my 160 gig drive Or maybe I could create a new Windows install CD with SP1 on it already.
View 2 Replies View Relateda few days ago i had a problem performing a clean install of Windows XP which is on another thread Link below:
URL...I now have managed to install XP on my 60GB drive but when i try to format my 400gb SATA drive i cannot. BIOS Sees my SATA drive and windows XP sees the drive as Unallocated. I tried formatting it in windows and Partition Magic 8 and both times windows seems to crash and hangs and there is nothing i can do but reboot to get back into windows.
How does one go about formatting the hard drive?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI friend of mine is working on my pc for me. I'm putting in a new main HD (since mine crapped out) it's 80G. I also have a new 320G backup HD that he's putting in. Well he's got everything going and XP pro loaded up but says that he normally formats a drive with a program off a floppy. My PC doesn't have a floppy drive nor does the MB support one. He said he used XP to format the drive (which he's never used XP to format a drive) and the BIOS is saying 320G is there but windows is saying only 8G is there. Any idea what's wrong?
View 14 Replies View Relatedi had to purchase a new hard drive due to multiple errors on my hard drive. My brand new drive is the same exact model as my old one but when i try to install xp on the new drive i get as far as formatting the drive and the computer shuts off and wont turn back on. I have to unplug it, let it sit for a little but and then plug it back in and it will start up again.
View 14 Replies View Relatedwe have an XP box at work we use for testing custom apps we create...we threw in an extra drive and put Vista on this drive just to test out our apps...after testing, we removed the drive (and hence Vista) leaving just the main drive with XP...our boot options still list Vista as a boot option..i know fixmbr works with XP, but there is another command (can't remember what it is, never used it) for Vista...using XP, can i use the fixmbr command to remove the Vista boot option? if not, how should i remove the second boot option from XP?
View 7 Replies View RelatedI'm formatting my hard drive and re-installing XP, and I'm wondering if I can delete the system partition without any adverse effects to the system. When I try to delete it from the XP Setup disk, it warns me not to do it, but I'm trying to create a larger partition for the system. Can I delete the system partition and create a new one.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI got a new system assembled a month back and after 15 days the stop error began to happen (this was after my bro tried to transfer files from his iPod & it didn't happen). I looked up a lot of forums but didn't find this one and couldn't figure out what the problem might be. Restored system, disabled services, but nothing worked. Finally I got the C: drive formatted and Win XP SP2 reinstalled. Didn't install unnecessary/extra software this time. But I found this site a day before getting it formatted, so saved the last 5 minidump files. And the day after the reinstallation, it has started happening again. The first time it was the bcmndis.sys file -- Airtel Beetel 220bx modem -- connected with the USB; couldn't find another driver for it online.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI have 3 hard drives, one 40 gig, one 20 gig and a 160 gig, i have xp professional on the 40 gig and i use the 160 gig for all my game.What i want to do is put windows millennium on the 20 gig hard drive, is it possible without formatting my other drive and create a dual booting system.
View 4 Replies View RelatedHope this all makes sense... To cut a long story short, i have ended up with 2 versions of XP on the same partition of my hard drive. I know this is always a bad idea but it wasn't me who did it! The person who installed both also partitoned my hard drive into two sections, 40gb and 20gb....so i now have XP pro and XP Home installed on the same partition. Anyway i used partition magic to merge the 2 sections together as it was confusing issues.
Basically- What i want to do is start fresh with one working version of Windows XP Pro on my computer. I've tried inserting the XP Pro CD and telling it to install a fresh copy, overwriting all other versions of windows- but it has only overwritten XP Home and i'm left with 2 versions of XP Pro, and my computer asks me which one i want to start on start-up. So how should i go about removing one of the versions? Would formatting my C-Drive do the trick, followed by installing XP Pro from the CD again?
This is my DAD's personal computer now, we are trying to format his hard drive i get to the point where it asks me whether i want to proceed, i put yes and hit enter, it then doesn't start formatting, it just say C:WINDOWS?
View 5 Replies View RelatedAfter formatting my drive recently (XP Laptop) some of the keys do not produce the character indicated.
For example:
shift 2 should be " but is now @ '
i have lost the symbols for the pound and euro currency completely and a few otheres are changed also
I will be formatting my drive now and I want to install XP and Vista so that I can choose which one to load at the start of booting up. How would I do this? Do I need to create two partitions, install both operating systems on the separate drives and then done? Or is there more to it? Which operating system should I install first, if there is any difference
View 1 Replies View RelatedFitted an extra HDD to my machine. Detected in bios but XP will not find it. Drive is unformatted (new), how do you format in windows XP. It was easy in 98SE, just go to dos, fdisk then format. How do you do this in XP?
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