Re: cant reformat

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From: Mike H (mike.hall.mail_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: 08/29/04 

Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 12:06:07 -0400

Disconnect any peripheral devices, e.g printer.. all that you need connected
is keyboard, mouse and monitor..

"ron maginniss" <ronmaginniss@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
news:OGUVx6djEHA.704@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Hi all, newbie here, i'l try and explain my best.
> i want to reformat, i put my windows XP cd in my cd-rom and rebooted my
> computer, after doing so it asked me to press any key to boot from cd, i
> do and then it says, SETUP IS INSPECTING YOUR COMPUTERS HARDWARE and then
> it just freezes/the screen stays black/blank.
> i then tried going into bios and changing the boot sequence and making my
> cd-rom #1 (primary) saved changed and rebooted, and the same thing
> happened.
>
> any ideas?
> i have an AMD Athlon Xp 2400,windows xp Home edition, version 2002,
> service pack 2 (now that i updated the other day)...some1 suggested that
> maybe the windows xp home edition cd i have is non bootable, is that
> possible?
>
>
>
>

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