Hello… Im trying to reformat my step dads computer. It has windows XP, which was recently reformatted off of a partition located on the computer. The partition, I believe, was corrupted at 1 time, and gives multiple errors dealing with the SVCHost and other critical processes. Instead of trying to fix this, I figured lets try reformattin from a boot disc.
So I went ahead and got a windows XP boot disc, with SP2 already installed.. burnt it… And tried to use it.
The result :
Restarted the computer, inserted the disc, and set the computer up to boot from disc. It doesn’t do anything, except sit on a black screen and it has a blinking underscore. I let the computer sit for about 15 minutes like this.
I know the Boot disc works, as I recently used the EXACT same disc(Same disc i burned…) to reformat/reinstall windows xp on another machine. The machine with the working XP runs perfectly fine, and I had no problems with installation.
Its like the boot disc is trying to boot, but fails with no kind of error reporting. Please Help.. =[
PS. The system specs are below for the computer that won’t boot(Let me know if you need more information)…
HP Pavilion – AMD Athlon XP 3200+ 2.2GHZ processor. Currently has Windows XP Home Edition(32-bit of course).
Tried using a Windows XP Professional 32-bit iso file, which I already said, worked on another desktop(A Dell optiplex).
