hi to all,
i have just bought a laptop from a m8 of mine & i was going to format the hardrive so i had a fresh system etc.
when i looked at the drive i noticed he had it in 3 partitions, partition magic was allready on the computer so i ran it to delete the partitions etc. when this was done i rebooted the computer with my xp disc in the cd drive & got to the install xp stage, here i noticed there was still 2 partitions on the drive, i then choose a partition to delete leaving me with just one to put xp onto.
i then started to install xp & i got a fatal error message !!
now i cant reboot from the hardrive or the xp cd.
when i boot the computer with the xp disc in i get the usual message, press any key to boot from cd, this i do & i then get the next message saying :
set up is inspecting your computers configeration.
THEN NOTHING AT ALL HAPPENS!!!!
i cant boot from a floppy disc because my laptop doesnt have a floppy drive, i have tried all the usual remedies of safe mode etc but still nothing.
please help, it is driving me insane.
thanks in advance
i have just bought a laptop from a m8 of mine & i was going to format the hardrive so i had a fresh system etc.
when i looked at the drive i noticed he had it in 3 partitions, partition magic was allready on the computer so i ran it to delete the partitions etc. when this was done i rebooted the computer with my xp disc in the cd drive & got to the install xp stage, here i noticed there was still 2 partitions on the drive, i then choose a partition to delete leaving me with just one to put xp onto.
i then started to install xp & i got a fatal error message !!
now i cant reboot from the hardrive or the xp cd.
when i boot the computer with the xp disc in i get the usual message, press any key to boot from cd, this i do & i then get the next message saying :
set up is inspecting your computers configeration.
THEN NOTHING AT ALL HAPPENS!!!!
i cant boot from a floppy disc because my laptop doesnt have a floppy drive, i have tried all the usual remedies of safe mode etc but still nothing.
please help, it is driving me insane.
thanks in advance