Reinstalling Windows XP?

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LeafzFan8

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I am reinstalling windows XP and have become stuck at the beggining part where you have to format a partition? If anyone here has any knowledge in reinstalling windows could you please let me know if I have to do this? I go to unparitioned space and hit enter which it should start to set up windows. Then I go to format NFTS (Quick) and then it jumps to 20% and doesn't move anymore? So has it frozen or does it just take forever for this step or what could I be doing wrong? It would be greatly appreciated if ya could help or lead me to a good website...Thanks :D
 
If you only have one drive and partition, just delete the name it shows, then press enter. This will reformat the new partition.
 
Maybe I don't understand what a partition is? I have 2 cd rom drives and my C: drive but can only seem to find 1 partition when I go through this process? It is C:/Partition 1 or w/e so I click on it. I then click on use Format NFTS (Quick) or w/e and it jumps tp 20% and then jsut says formatting partition and won't go along anymore? Anyone here have a respone to this it would be greatly appreciated...Thanks :D
 
Ok I understand all of this part but when I click enter for it to start formatting the partition it jsut sits there and won't do anything..Whether I click (quick) or just normal it sits at 0%/20% forveer and won't do anything? The XP disk and everythings in the drive anyone know why it won't do anything?
 
Unfortunately, this sounds like a problem with the harddrive
itself. Since you are redoing the partitions you are going
to lose everything on the drive so I would try a couple
of things.

I would definately skip the quick format and see if it
finishes with the regular format. I would give a pretty
good amount of time (at least a couple of hours to
see if it gets past the 20%).

If that doesn't work then you could try to create more
than 1 partition. For instance, say the drive is 10 gig
and it is hanging at 20%. Make the first partition 2 gig
(10 * .2 = 2 gig) and try to format it. Make the next
partition 8 gig (10 * .8 = 8 gig) and try to format it.
If the first partition works and the second one doesn't
then you have a problem with the drive.
 
Thank you for that reply and I will try some of that. Cuz as it is now I got past the 20% using the normal format but it stopped around 25% with an error. I only have it set at 1 partition. Do I need to make more then 1 or should it be able to work with just 1? Thanks a lot in advance and hopefully I can get another helper :D
 
I would try three.

Use 20 or 25% of the drive for the 1st one. Use the next 25% for
the next one. Then use the last 50% for the last one.

What you are trying to do is find out if everything past the
first 20 - 25% is bad. It might just be a small part of the
drive. It could be only 5% or so but you won't know until
you try to format it.
 
ok, just going back to what he was first saying. whats the size of the hard drive, and also try some of the bios setting or summing, and it might be worth trying a full fat format aswell.


oh and a better way of explaining the partition thing.

it is basically slices on a pizza, you still have the same ammount, well less. but you have more drives.
 
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