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overclocked irl

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I just got my new computer ( No operating system installed) And while it was formating it was at about 40% and then my power went out. So when it started to boot the cd again it said "error loading operating system" or something of that nature. What can I do? Is my new computer fried? Please help
 
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overclocked irl said:
I can't it says error loading operating system.
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Make sure your CD/DVD drive is set to boot first in the boot priority section in the BIOS. Insert the installation disk into the drive and restart the process. To me, it looks like the computer is trying to boot off a hard drive without an OS.
 
If the problem persists after trying to start the installation all over again from the start you might need a 3rd party drive partitioning tool to remove what was placed on the drive and now unreadable by the Windows installer. If it comes to that and you need a drive tool the Linux tool known as GParted will create the new primary needed while the installer later sees it formatted.

The 0.3.3.0 and 0.3.2.0 releases of the free Linux tool are "platform independent" meaning cross platform between various OSs. SO far no newer version of those has been released despite other updated versions. http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=115843&package_id=173828

For general use the instructions along with screenshots can be reviewed at http://gparted.sourceforge.net/larry/generalities/gparted.htm Some additional screens are seen at http://gparted.sourceforge.net/screenshots.php

The sudden loss of power simply interrupted the installation process and likely no damage was seen unless you happened to see a large surge especially typical during an electrical storm. Otherwise it's likely a simple glitch in the installation being seen.

If you should happen to need a 3rd party tool GParted is downloaded as an ISO type disk image and burned onto a cd-r and made bootable. Free ISO capable burning programs are available like Deep Burner, BurnOn, and an updated free version of StarBurn found at http://www.rocketdivision.com/download_starburn.html
 
PC eye said:
If the problem persists after trying to start the installation all over again from the start you might need a 3rd party drive partitioning tool to remove what was placed on the drive and now unreadable by the Windows installer. If it comes to that and you need a drive tool the Linux tool known as GParted will create the new primary needed while the installer later sees it formatted.

The 0.3.3.0 and 0.3.2.0 releases of the free Linux tool are "platform independent" meaning cross platform between various OSs. SO far no newer version of those has been released despite other updated versions. http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=115843&package_id=173828

For general use the instructions along with screenshots can be reviewed at http://gparted.sourceforge.net/larry/generalities/gparted.htm Some additional screens are seen at http://gparted.sourceforge.net/screenshots.php

The sudden loss of power simply interrupted the installation process and likely no damage was seen unless you happened to see a large surge especially typical during an electrical storm. Otherwise it's likely a simple glitch in the installation being seen.

If you should happen to need a 3rd party tool GParted is downloaded as an ISO type disk image and burned onto a cd-r and made bootable. Free ISO capable burning programs are available like Deep Burner, BurnOn, and an updated free version of StarBurn found at http://www.rocketdivision.com/download_starburn.html
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I downloaded gpparted but it won't burn! Im trying to burn it on dvd+r
 
That should be burned onto a cd-r due to it's small size of only 35mb. On a cd-r it will also load faster due to the faster read time. Hopefully you downloaded the 0.3.3.0 release since that also loads up faster then the earlier version.

Once burned to disk one tip for booting with that and later the Windows disk is to see if your board has a boot device menu so you can leave the hard drive as the 1st in the boot order. Right as the memory count is complete during the initial post tests you press the assigned F key whether that's F8, F4, F12 to bring up the menu of drives and select the optical drive the disk is in for the one time boot.

That saves going in and out of the bios each time to change the boot order back and forth. If you don't see the option at post refer to the user manual for the board on that.

When booting from the GParted disk simply press the enter key at each prompt since making any changes to setting while loading will usually stall the works. On most systems the defaults of 24bit and a resolution of 1024x768 will see it load to the main gui. increasing to 1280x1024 will make it larger then the screen size seeing options moved offscreen with no way to use them like bringing down the list of hard drives.
 
PC eye said:
That should be burned onto a cd-r due to it's small size of only 35mb. On a cd-r it will also load faster due to the faster read time. Hopefully you downloaded the 0.3.3.0 release since that also loads up faster then the earlier version.

Once burned to disk one tip for booting with that and later the Windows disk is to see if your board has a boot device menu so you can leave the hard drive as the 1st in the boot order. Right as the memory count is complete during the initial post tests you press the assigned F key whether that's F8, F4, F12 to bring up the menu of drives and select the optical drive the disk is in for the one time boot.

That saves going in and out of the bios each time to change the boot order back and forth. If you don't see the option at post refer to the user manual for the board on that.

When booting from the GParted disk simply press the enter key at each prompt since making any changes to setting while loading will usually stall the works. On most systems the defaults of 24bit and a resolution of 1024x768 will see it load to the main gui. increasing to 1280x1024 will make it larger then the screen size seeing options moved offscreen with no way to use them like bringing down the list of hard drives.
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The problem is burning it to iso, I have linked a picture of gpparted. How do I burn those files to iso? I have burn4free burning software.
 
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I have got it to start the cd- and I am currently reinstalling windows. Thank you so much Pc eye and mep916 for your help! I greatly appreciate it, Thanks one again.
 
Besides downloading the wrong release which wouldn't help to start the download is an ISO type image already. What are you using to burn it to disk with? The free versions of the three programs mentioned before will readily burn the GParted image with ease to a cd-r.

The three mentioned before work in both XP and Vista. In XP note that BurnOn will see 3 or 4 good burns in a row and then you have to run the system file checker with the XP cd in the drive to get that going again. That's the only unknown for the three found so far. Here's the links for the three.

The free version of BurnOn is found at http://www.burnworld.com/burnoncddvd/ Apparently StarBurn was written by the same software company and sees the free version of that at http://www.binarymagic.com/free.html

Deep Burner is on while someone else uses that one for iso images. You can download that at http://www.deepburner.com/?r=download

Remember to look for either the 0.3.3.0 or 0.3.2.0 version of GParted down about 15 or 16 version on the download page there. The rest are strictly for Linux as far as seeing new primaries created. All of them can resize existing partitions while only the two still seen are cross platform for MS and other OSs.

The last and best is the 0.3.3.0 version being able to create Fat16/32 partitions as well as NTFS. When clicking on the link for each one the item to look for is seen on the right side as seen in the image here.



Before the page there was redesigned for appearance it was a little easier to simply look under the architexture catagory to locate it.



Glad to see you now have everything going again. Review the information for future reference.
 
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