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Fresh re-install windows xp pro

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by dazeboy79

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I am trying to wipe a drive and do a fresh reinstall of xp pro, for some reason windows cannot access my hard drive i think it may be locked. Anyhow, I wiped it once with KillDisk and used a reinstallation disk, seemed to work fine, but then I couldn't get into windows b/c I didn't know the Administrator password. So, I tried safe mode with noluck. Next, I tried Offline NT Password & Registry Editor with which I unlocked and reset all user accounts multiple times. This said it worked, but didn't. I think I read somewhere after the fact (of course) that you're only supposed to reset one account. Next, I tried resetting the administrator password with NTFS4DOS and Password reset 2.5 which I've purchased and used b4 successfully. But this didn't work! So I tried KillDisk again and it hangs up. Now, it still says setup cannot access this disk. And I get a blue screen error:

***STOP: 0x0000008E (0xC0000005,0xF77F9CFD,0xF73DF800,0x00000000)
and ***setupdd.sys - Address F77F9CFD base at F77D0000, DateStamp 3d6dd67f.

Now I've got it screwed up again and I've spent many hours and I'm calling it a night. Oh, I forgot to tell the 3 other things I tried... 1 was Ultimate Boot Disk, 2 was dban1.0.7, and 3 was ophcrack(this one seems like it would work, but I got tired and decided to give up like I am with this post) Perhaps someone can make some sense from this ramble of a post!!! LOL So I'll check back tommorrow and see what some of you super dedicated and awesomely helpful people have to say!! Thanks for listening and I'm out. :P Whew!!

Sincerely,

Frustrated MS user

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by tintoman

ok so you want to do a fresh install of windows XP?
So boot the computer from the installation disk, if your computer has a SATA hard drive then its odds on you will need to load drivers for that during the set up by pressing the F6 key when promted to load 3rd party drivers.
Then if your hard drive is still not detected you will be looking for a hardware fault and maybe you will need to change the drive.
You do not need to wipe the drive before you do the install because you will have the option to delete the existing partition during the set up process, then you will create a new partition and format it, and proceed with the windows installation.

by dmiles

This error message can be caused by hardware incompatibility generally the video or memory modules

1)Check the Microsoft Knowledgebase by copying the error message and paste it in search box

2)Try booting into safe mode,try installing form this point

Check your motherboard manual for accessing the BIOS configuration,select to boot from CD as first boot device

The other option is try getting and usint a Windows 98 Boot Disk,boot from floppy as 1st boot device and selct using FDISK to wipe drive

Check the hard drive manufacturers site for drive diagnostic disk,using this disk to format the drive

by dazeboy79

Hey guys/gals:

Thank you soooo much for the quick replies. I think I just simply had a bad hard drive. WOW Maybe I'm a little slow.. It's strange though because it worked for a short time or seemed to at least. Anyway I'm trying again with a new HD.

I'll keep you guys posted if I'm successful or not.

Thanks again!!

by tig2

Wanted to take a second and thank you for posting your question so well. You made sure that we all knew what had happened, allowing the peers to respond with good answers. I wish everyone asked questions like this!

Merry Christmas!

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