Re: reinstall XP Home - Big, challenging problem here!
From: jyd982 (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/15/04
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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 22:00:54 -0700
>-----Original Message-----
>Hello
>Sounds to me like you did not boot from the XP cd, you
put the cd in after
>the computer was already running and then chose Full
Install.
>
>You will need to put the XP cd in then shut the computer
down, Then start
>the computer, if the HDD is set to boot before the ROM
drive then you will
>need to change the boot order in the BIOS.
>
>After booting with the cd in you will get a message,
Press any Key to Boot
>>From CD, at that point hit the space bar you will have
to be quick for the
>message will only appear for a few seconds.
>
>Then it will start copping some files, then at the
next ? you will choose
>>Enter< then >F8< to accept license agreement, then you
will be asked to put
>in the qualifying cd, put the 98 cd in, then you will be
able to choose a
>partition to install on or delete the partitions one at
a time and create
>new one then format to NTFS (not the quick one), then
you can continue the
>install, at one point the computer will restart and you
will see the Press
>any Key to Boot From the CD message again (Do Not Press
a Key) the setup
>will continue.
>
>http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_sg_clean.a
sp
>
>--
>Hope This Helps
>Haus
>Not a MVP
>Not a MS-MVP
>Not nothing just a good ole boy..;)
>"Bob" <jyd982@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:1c53c01c45274$e286b720$a501280a@phx.gbl...
>> Here's the story.
>>
>> My wife has XP home. She got a virus or something where
>> she couldn't access the net and Norton could not
download
>> new files. Reinstalled XP, but it would lock up
whenever
>> it wanted to. I disabled all screen savers and power
mgt
>> utilities. seemed to be ok until she reinstalled
>> Norton... same problem again. Finally with no Norton
the
>> system would still lock up after she installed SP1.
>>
>> I've heard of some people having problems with SP1, I
>> haven't. Anyway, she decided she needed to rip
everything
>> out and format C: drive. Big mistake!!! This is why.
>>
>> 1. She had switched over to NTFS
>> 2. her XP copy is an upgrade only, which means she
needs
>> to show proof of a previous Windows copy to continue.
>> (the old choice of putting in 98 or ME to prove this
and
>> then switching back to the XP disk is not available to
>> her- question was not asked)
>> 3. We hauled out our old Win 98SE disk which is a full
>> version.
>> 4. You guessed it!!!! it loads just so far and keeps
>> rebooting itself automatically.
>>
>> Problem- disk is now NTFS which 98SE can't see or use.
>>
>> I tried fdisk and deleted all partitions then
reformated.
>> NTFS is still there. If I choose in fdisk - largest max
>> size for logical dos drive... there is no space left on
>> this 80 gig drive, the rest being NTFS. If I choose No
to
>> largest size, 989SE starts to install and gets to about
>> 25% and does it's first reboot. At this point it keeps
>> rebooting and rebooting all by itself.
>>
>> what I need to do is to get rid of NTFS and get it back
>> to FAT32, but I can't seem to do it. I have an old copy
>> of pqmagic which offers ntfs and htfs (which I know
>> nothing about)but not FAT32 when partitioning. It can
do
>> FST32 but FAT32 is not one of my choices... only ntfs,
>> htfs and Linix32 or something like that.
>>
>> There has got to be a way to dump NTFS and get back to
>> FAT32! My pqmagic is version 4.0 - pretty old.
>>
>> I've tried format c: /s /fs nothing works. Format C:
>> works but as I said above I have little room left to
>> install 98SE so I can upgrade to XP again. I wonder if
>> there are just certain files to load which XP will
>> recognize as a previous version and therefore will
>> install. At that point XP should install into the NTFS
>> file system.
>>
>> so- either- 1. a few command filoes which XP will see
as
>> previous copy. Or 2. find out how to get rid of NTFS
and
>> back to FAT32 so 98SE will install, allowing me to
>> upgrade to XP on my wife's computer. Or am I totally
off
>> my rocker and screwed! :) Bob
>
>Haus- Danke sehr!!! Vielen Dank!!! We tried this before
and didn't work but tried it again and it's working! I
don't know why it didn't work before. Fascinating!
Anyway, again, thank you very much for your help. I am
jyarddog on MSN chat. If you do FS9 I fly around at props
Unlimited. If interested I can give the IP on MSN chat.
Bob
>.
>
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