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I went to the recovery console and fdisk was not an option. I did select an option and it said it was running FAT. then when the computer restarted i got the message, "Dell's disk monitoring system has detected that drive 0 on the primary EIDE controller is operating outside of normal specifications. It is advisable to immediately back up your data and replace your hard disk drive by calling....Strike F1 to continue, F2 to run the setup utility." Also if i do not Strike F1 or F2...it says "NTLDR is missing"
Before i did went to the recovery console like i just explained, i was trying to reformat a little while ago and it starts and gets about 48% of the way through when it stops.
Before i did went to the recovery console like i just explained, i was trying to reformat a little while ago and it starts and gets about 48% of the way through when it stops.
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Re: Problems reformatting Windows XP Not sure whether this is a valid suggestion, but you could try piggy backing the hdd on another system. Then format it through My Computer. (Right click on correct drive and select format...)
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Any idea sounds good about now. But how would i hook the laptop up to another computer??
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Sorry I forgot to mention you need a cable that converts the Laptop HDD into a PC sized connector. Assuming your HDD is IDE then this cable will do just the Job.
http://www.maplin.co.uk/SEODynamicPa...sp?ModNo=28724
Note: I am not trying to advertise a product, just giving an example. There are many others on the market.
http://www.maplin.co.uk/SEODynamicPa...sp?ModNo=28724
Note: I am not trying to advertise a product, just giving an example. There are many others on the market.
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Well i have another laptop, how would i go about hooking a laptop to a laptop. is there a way without opening them both up?
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do u have any bootable windows 98 cd, or any cd with a fdisk utility. base on what you are saying this hdd is fat and cause cause proble, also if it have damage clusters. run chkdsk from the recocery console and check the hdd.
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You cannot easily do Laptop to Laptop, commenting on another post saying use a windows 98CD. You could use a Win98 Bootdisk to initialise the fdisk command. Is it an old Laptop?
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i ran C:\>fixboot and it said the file system on the startup partition is FAT. But shouldn't it be NTFS???
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yes and the size of the hdd will dictate that it has to be ntfs to install xp.
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check the "bios aitvirus" isnt on or something
like that
This stops things writing to the MBR like bootsector viruses, but stops windows installing properley
like that
This stops things writing to the MBR like bootsector viruses, but stops windows installing properley
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