Hard Drive Help

[AtomikBomb]

Ok its a real long sotry but to cut it short, I'm going to reformat my hard drive. I have heard this is quite simple but could anyone help me out because I dont know where to begin. I have my windows disk and code and everything I want on my external hard drive. Ok so I put in the wondows CD and make it so it boots up to that. I got into windows setup and it will say Loading Windows something or other like it should and BAM blue screen of death. I have no clue what to do. Is it possiable to just goto Run and type "Format C:" let it go and then when its done pop in my windows install disk? If I do that will I be able to reinstall windows? Any help is GREAT. Thanks

EDIT: It is windows xp with SP2. Now, when I got my computer it dident come with a wondows disk so I have to use my brothers. His is SP1. So I am going down. I have my own code though.

[SwiftRetribution]

Re: Hard Drive Help

you can use your brothers disk to reformat windows. Pop it into the cd drive then restart your computer. Usually, a system message will pop-up saying "press any key to boot from cd...". Doing so will bring up the Windows System Recover tool and a number of options. Press R to enter the recovery console and type in format c: (assuming this is the letter of your hard-drive). It will go through the reformatting process, which afterwards it will ask you to remove the disk and hit ctrl+alt+del. Go ahead and leave the disk in that bad boy in there and boot from the cd again. Now, once you are in the Windows System Recovery winow, go ahead and follow the instructions onscreen to make a partition (usually about 8 gigs for the Windows XP operating system). It will then ask if you want to install Windows onto the partition. Follow the instructions and within 20-30 minutes (alll dependable on your CPU speed really) you will on your way to a clean install of Windows XP. Don't forgot to download SP2 and the necessary Windows updates!


- Swift

[Stormy{CAN}]

Re: Hard Drive Help

you can use your brothers disk to reformat windows. Pop it into the cd drive then restart your computer. Usually, a system message will pop-up saying "press any key to boot from cd...". Doing so will bring up the Windows System Recover tool and a number of options. Press R to enter the recovery console and type in format c: (assuming this is the letter of your hard-drive). It will go through the reformatting process, which afterwards it will ask you to remove the disk and hit ctrl+alt+del. Go ahead and leave the disk in that bad boy in there and boot from the cd again. Now, once you are in the Windows System Recovery winow, go ahead and follow the instructions onscreen to make a partition (usually about 8 gigs for the Windows XP operating system). It will then ask if you want to install Windows onto the partition. Follow the instructions and within 20-30 minutes (alll dependable on your CPU speed really) you will on your way to a clean install of Windows XP. Don't forgot to download SP2 and the necessary Windows updates!


- Swift

I won't even go into how much of that info is incorrect.

AtomikBomb, have a look here,

http://www.windowsxphome.windowsreinstall.com/installxpcdoldhdd/indexfullpage.htm

Complete with pictures of everything you will see/go through during the install.

BTW, you may have your own cd-key, but is your version of XP the same as your brothers? By the same I mean one of the following,

Retail
OEM - bought indepenantly of the computer
OEM - came pre-installed on the computer (Dell, HP, etc).
Home
Pro

If your version is the same as what his cd is, the SP2 part won't make matter.

[SwiftRetribution]

Re: Hard Drive Help

Please let me bow down to the all knowing Canadian......his intellect his far superior to me.........:laugh:

[signa]

Re: Hard Drive Help

why are you asking here, when people already answered you on the other forum? :p

[System]

Re: Hard Drive Help

Please let me bow down to the all knowing Canadian......his intellect his far superior to me.........:laugh:

lol thats jokes. =P