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daygowop

daygowop

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I am trying to reformat my comp but everytime i change my BIOS settings to boot from cd, it goes through the whole ordeal and i press enter and then it says it cant find a hard disk. someone please help me i am extremely frustrated!:mad:
 
Does your system use a RAID controller or is SATA? if so your problem lies here as you need to have a floppy disk inserted into your floppy drive so that the drivers for the controller can be loaded up.
 
yea ur right. thanks for ur help but now im screwed, isnt there a way that i can mess with cords of my hard drive or something?
 
Is your system purchased from a manufacturer or did you build it yourself? Usually with a prebuilt system you will a way of reinstalling windows without formatting, it will do it all for you.
 
Hairy_Lee said:
Is your system purchased from a manufacturer or did you build it yourself? Usually with a prebuilt system you will a way of reinstalling windows without formatting, it will do it all for you.
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it is from dell but it only has the system restore b.s.
 
Use that then, there's no point of going through all the hassle if you have a tool that will do it automatically
 
Hairy_Lee said:
Use that then, there's no point of going through all the hassle if you have a tool that will do it automatically
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no, system restore sucks, im trying to completely reformat my comp. i want brand new windows on there, none of that system restore crap.
 
and im pretty sure that there is a way that i can rewire stuff in the back of my pc im just not sure exactly how to do it. lemme kno if u do or if anyone does.
 
yea, all i have noticed "system restore" doing is just going through and see if there are any missing system files then it if there are it will replace it...
 
The odd thing is there's absolutley no difference in the end result.

However, should you still wish to take this route you need to find out what motherboard your system has, then find out what RAID controller it uses and then download the correct drivers from the manufacturer's site (make sure they're named something like floppy drivers to make sure they're for a floppy disk or something like that).... then just boot the system from the windows xp disk in there with the floppy disk you've created in the drive and make sure to press F6 when you're prompted

Encore4more: - you're wrong with that statement, a system restore will replace everything on the hard drive; they will use something like norton ghost to transfer the image from the disks, or from a hidden partition and write a new MBR to the hard drive.
 
ok well u ready for this? i dont hav a floppy drive, which is why i keep trying to tell u that there is a way to rewire ur hard drive or something i just dont remember how to do it because i hav done it to my friend's pc who also had the same problem as me. also i would use the system restore but i didnt save a checkpoint on the first day that i booted my comp so it only goes back 3 months ago, my comp is almost a year old.
 
the system restore should have some sort of disk, i also know that most (if not all) manufacturer's have a hidden partition on the drive and when you boot the system pressing a combination of keys will cause the system restore to kick in. Its worth a look in the bios to see if there's an option to enable or disable the system restore, if there is it should tell you what keys to press.
You say that you have SATA drives, its not possible to make it work with out the drivers for the boot process. Its possible to put an IDE drive onto a SATA cable with a converter but not the other way round
 
Hairy_Lee said:
the system restore should have some sort of disk, i also know that most (if not all) manufacturer's have a hidden partition on the drive and when you boot the system pressing a combination of keys will cause the system restore to kick in. Its worth a look in the bios to see if there's an option to enable or disable the system restore, if there is it should tell you what keys to press.
You say that you have SATA drives, its not possible to make it work with out the drivers for the boot process. Its possible to put an IDE drive onto a SATA cable with a converter but not the other way round
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thanks for your help, u r right. i can just image restore in the BIOS settings. as for that rewiring crap i was talking about, it wasnt even a SATA hdd, sry bout that. thanks again!
 
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