Hi my name is Chris. I just recently bought a new computer and I’m selling my old amd xp 2100+ system.
I was getting this computer ready to sell to a roommate but I’ve encountered an error that I can’t overcome.
I was trying to remember how to format drive C: for win xp. I couldn’t remember how to do it until too late. (booting from disk)
Before I realized the proper sequence I had started to re-install windows xp thinking that might erase what was on the hard drive.
In doing so, I remembered the proper way to format C: by restarting the computer and booting by the xp disk; then going into recovery console…
Well, as xp was reinstalling, my system restarted (as it should during this process) but it was here that I remembered the proper way to format.
As xp reloading during the goofed-up reinstallatioin, I tried booting by the xp cd and went into recovery console to format c:.
It gave me the typical warning about formatting c: but it seemed to work (although I didn’t have to wait but 2 seconds for this format)
Next, windows started and I noticed that everything was still on my desktop thus not format had been done.
Now when I start my computer, it wants to finish the windows setup right away (from the reinstallation) and I can’t even get to boot from the cd because of this. Whats worse is that it won’t finish the win xp setup because I get an error and the computer locks up or restarts. Some problem with hardware setup which I never had before with this computer.
Is there a solution to this problem?
Thanks,
Chris Robinson