Formatting HD Problems

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Blowndakrt

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Hey everyone, I am trying to format the HD on my Dell Laptop. Its been giving me issues and finally decided to just start over clean.

I am going to the C prompt through windows. It comes up as C:\documentandsettings\user When I type in Format C: it goes through its saying that it will delete all info on the HD. I type Y to continue. It then says the HD is mounted to another component. It asks if you want to dismount it, and I type in Y. It then comes back and says it is not able to dismount the HD.

Am I doing something wrong? Is there another way to get to the C prompt?

Thanks

Shawn
 
Sean89 said:
just format it with a windows disc
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I tried that as well, but as it goes through the repair, it gets about halfway through it an the computer shuts off completely, powers down etc. I am hooked up through the adapter for power from an electrical outlet.

Shawn
 
You can't format your c drive from within windows. You need to boot to the install cd, delete existing partitions, repartition, and then format and install the OS.
 
Well I finally got it to reformat.

I reinstalled windows xp and and spent most of the night with automatic updates. LOL.

I began to install some of my previous software today. I got about 4 programs in and was in the middle of installing the 5th one and I got a blue screen.

It said : Stop: c000021a {Fatal System Error} Windows subsystem system process terminated unexpectedly with a status of Ox c0000005 (Ox7c9106c3 Ox00b2f36c)

System has shut down.
Begin dump of physical memory
Physical memory dump complete
Please see service administrator or technical support for more info.


So do I need to start over, or is something wrong with my hard drive?

Thanks

Shawn
 
Ok, I think I found the issue. When I was installing my point of sale program it changed the registry key. Must be the new version or something as I did not have those issues before when I was running it.

Thanks for the quick response. I'm just trying to limp this computer along till I can buy all the components to build my own.

Shawn
 
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