Re: XP Professional unstable and reboots

You have made the assumption that your system is rebooting because of the
way your hard drive is partitioned. You are wrong. Spontaneous rebooting is
caused by excessive heat, bad cooling fans, bad RAM, corrupted/bad drivers
and many more.

Your system is crashing? Go to Start. Right click on My Computer. Go to
properties. Go to advanced | Startup and Recovery "settings button". Remove
the check from "Automatically Restart".

Now if your computer crashes you will be presented with a blue screen. Write
down the error code "exactly" as presented on the screen. Post the
information back here, in this same thread. Do NOT start a new thread (new
post).

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

"Al Dean" <AlDean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:186E3A48-1184-49AB-9DA5-8FCAF0742235@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> New Seagate 200 gig Hard drive
> Fresh/New first time installation of Windows XP Professional.
>
> I probably should not have used the CD that came with the Seagate. It
> divided the hard drive into 132 gig section then added the rest after
> windows
> was installed.
>
> First of all I do not like that. I would rather have one all inclusive
> directory tree.
>
> Second, it's unstable and reboots for no reason with no regularity.
>
> I want to dump it all. Format the hard drive, reinstall this new XP disk.
> But do I have to remove the partition Seagate put on the hard drive first?
> I
> cant figure out how. Will windows indeed re-install or is it going to say
> 'No, you already did this.....I tried the online help but it said I had to
> pay to get assistance so that's not free. Damnit I wish I'd left it alone
> and just stayed with the old hard drive and the good ole 98. I know it's
> like saying you wish you still had your laser disk player but this is all
> just barely out of my realm of comfort and experience.
>
> Is there a slick way to do this? Is there a written instruction *** of
> how to format the hard drive without the Seagate crap and install windows
> correctly. I think the whole partitioning is the source but I dont know.
>
>
>
>
> --
> Al Dean


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