stuck in reformat

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chazman221

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Got a used computer. Illegal XP pro on it. I reformat with my legal, full version XP home. Done this a few times with no problems, not this time.
Sorry if I don't word this perfect, I'm learning.....What I did.....

Reformat hard drive to ntsf? (not quick)
let the XP Home disc do it's thing
Tells me this portion is done, restarts computer
It tries to run the disc scan but cant locate it so it doesnt.
everything starts booting past the XP home screen then i get nailed with blue screen
" STOP: c000021a {Fatal System Error} The Session Manager Initialization system process terminated unexpectedly with a status of 0xc000003a (0x00000000 ..."
Tried to reboot all ways(safe, ect.)
Ran Xp home disc again, I can get into repair (black) screen but don't know what to do
Ran XP home disc, pressed enter to start, ran all the way to "press f8 to accept"
Next screen I see says "can't read disc".......press enter when I have disc loaded" The disc I have is the real deal, not copied.


I can not get past this screen to start over, I have no clue what to do.

Nothing was wrong with this computer
emachine 600is, 10gig hd, nothing special, nothing on it before I started. Shouldent be anything now since I got all the way through reformat.
I read on google search to run "grub" bootloader. I have no idea which one to download or what to do with it.
Please help
Charlie
 
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I want to!!! When I run the disc it runs to "press f8 to accept" then instead of going to the hard drive screen it says " can't read disc......", "press enter when disc is in the drive". The disc was in the drive the whole time!

I have done this 4 times, same results.

I would love to be able to just start over. Can't get past the blue screen or the can't read disc screen
 
I believe this might have something to do with your system needing XP drivers. Do you still get the blue screen?
 
The fatal error screen? Yes. right after the windows xp home loading screen

Wouldent it have all the drivers from the install it performed after it reformated the drive?
 
chazman221 said:
The fatal error screen? Yes. right after the windows xp home loading screen

Wouldent it have all the drivers from the install it performed after it reformated the drive?
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Go into BIOS and check what your HDD controller is set as?
 
Someone just told me this>>>>>

This is because XP home can never counter XP pro

You will need to destroy XP pro totally using fdisk

I have a video demostration here
http://www.mediafire.com/?wnjegmk5nyw

It is fast but you can pause the video in between to see what is happening.

Download the win98.iso and burn it to a blank CD using imgburn program.

Then boot it off the CD drive

Does this make sense? I thought a reformat would clear the way. The guy I got this from said I could put the XP home on it instead of the Pro. Obviously he could be wrong.
 
JTM said:
Go into BIOS and check what your HDD controller is set as?
Click to expand...


OK under MAIN and then Primary Master [10210mb] I see type: AUTO
this is the only area I see HDD anywhere besides secondary master [cd rom] which is auto also.

is this it?
 
chazman221 said:
Someone just told me this>>>>>

This is because XP home can never counter XP pro

You will need to destroy XP pro totally using fdisk

I have a video demostration here
http://www.mediafire.com/?wnjegmk5nyw

It is fast but you can pause the video in between to see what is happening.

Download the win98.iso and burn it to a blank CD using imgburn program.

Then boot it off the CD drive

Does this make sense? I thought a reformat would clear the way. The guy I got this from said I could put the XP home on it instead of the Pro. Obviously he could be wrong.
Click to expand...


Since you are trying to re-install XP totally make sure you re-format your drive that you want to install on (all data will be lost). As for the HDD controller, what type of HDD do you have IDE or SATA?
 
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