reformatting troubles

PoofusPoofus
edited October 2004 in Science & Tech
i'm trying to reformat my harddrive to get a fresh clean start. i tried looking in other threads for this problem but i couldn't find any that helped.

anyway, i'm trying to reformat my hard drive while installing windows xp home. i went into the BIOS and made my primary boot device the CD-rom and restarted with the windows XP cd in the drive. a screen for some kind of windows setup comes up while loading files at the bottom, and then it brings me to a blue screen, saying that windows has caused an error or something and must shut down.

anyone know what i'm doing wrong or not doing? any help would be much appreciated :)

Comments

  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited October 2004
    Either you have bad memory or you have a bad windows XP CD.

    Do you have a floppy drive? If you do, download this. Run install.bat and it will make a bootable floppy. Run all seven tests (it should take between 15 minutes and an hour) and when you have 1 pass successfull with zero errors, you'll know that your memory is NOT the problem. If you have any errors at all, you have bad memory.
  • PoofusPoofus
    edited October 2004
    thanks, i'll try that now
  • PoofusPoofus
    edited October 2004
    okay... well now it's working, but after it says it's going to format and remove everything on the computer and so on, it goes though the long wait and when it gets to 100% it says it's finished and when i start up my computer, nothing has changed on it at all :confused:
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