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I feel like an idiot but I learned something new at least, TY. So there's no way around it, I have to buy a new hard drive...
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disregard that last post. I can use my friends computer and hook my hard drive up as a second drive and format it from there right? or will that not work for the same reason and take information from his mobo?
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Originally Posted by chaoslegion1804 
disregard that last post. I can use my friends computer and hook my hard drive up as a second drive and format it from there right? or will that not work for the same reason and take information from his mobo?
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Ok, I finally got the chance to get over to my friends house and formatted the HD (previously had XP home.) I then placed it back into my computer and changed in bios to boot from the CD drive (CD is XP Pro), came up with error bootmgr missing press crtl+alt+del to restart, tried that didn't work, tried running from the other CD drive and didn't work. same thing comes up. I don't know what to do, can you guys help me?
I'm thinking you may be caught with the HDD not i a state of grace sufficient for windows to be installed. The below link explains how you might get round this and it can't hurt because you have no data on the HDD to protect.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/69013
Let us know.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/69013
Let us know.
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Sorry I figured it out last night, apparently even though formatting the Hard Drive on another computer works, but aparently if the computer you formatted the HD has a higher OS then the one you wish to install it doesn't work(or at least for my computer that was the case), I ended up having to put Vista onto my Computer which doesn't make any sense to me at all, but my computer is running smoothly now. thank you all for your help in fixing my comp.
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Originally Posted by chaoslegion1804
Sorry I figured it out last night, apparently even though formatting the Hard Drive on another computer works, but aparently if the computer you formatted the HD has a higher OS then the one you wish to install it doesn't work(or at least for my computer that was the case), I ended up having to put Vista onto my Computer which doesn't make any sense to me at all, but my computer is running smoothly now. thank you all for your help in fixing my comp.
Last edited by caperjack; Jan 12th, 2009 at 7:53 pm.
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