Trouble formatting

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Victor_ffx

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Hey guys,

I'm having trouble formatting my computer.
Every time I boot from the CD and go to format partition, it's goes a little bit into the process and them freezes, the computer goes quiet so I know it isn't doing anything.

I've tried going to repair current OS and install fresh copy or whatever but everything I try to do it just goes a bit of the way in and then just stops, it doesn't freeze at the same place either,

Anyone know whats going on?
I'm using Windows XP Home by the way.

Thanks guys, Vic
 
And if you press the F8 key to get into the Windows boot menu and select any option like the safe mode /cpmmand prompt only option it never reaches the prompt there either most likely. I've been running into very similar problems lately on older XP cases where the older hard drives could be read from, partitions removed. BUT! when you attempted to use a partitioning tool or simply copy anything to the drive... nothing!

Those drives are now in for recycling! once they are wiped clean following whatever can be saved off of them first. Windows would lock, repair install attempts, and even full reinstall efforts all failed. If you have an extra hanging around doing nothing toss that in to see if that is what you are seeing there.
 
PC eye thanks for your reply, I've successfully formatted this computer before. Twice actually, I still don't know why it didn't work this time, maybe it's cos I put my serial number sticker on the CD itself and it made the disk unbalanced in the drive (it was humming quite loudly) Lol :P

I donno, anyway, I hunted around for my old Windows '98 CD and formatted with that, then I installed XP successfully with the CD.

Also I copied nearly all of my old files to my Maxtor external harddrive to sort out tomorrow.

By the way, I'm very interested in that website on your siggy. It's in my favourites (Hehe, already clogging up my PC again)
Thanks for sharing it ;)

Vic
 
The links in my sig change every once in awhile so putting that into your favorites was actually a smart move there. :P The last one was on a free Wi-Fi site while the one before that was on anti-allergenic peanuts since peanut allergies are a serious matter there.

Putting the product key label on the disk itself probably saw the disk slowed and struggling to be read accounting for some loud sound there. The descriptuin of seeing Windows setup lock does match what was seen with failing drives however. On the case where one of my old ide drives was loaned out the owner "never" even bothered to buy a can of air cleaner! :eek:

You wouldn't even be able to believe the layer of dust covering the entire board in that one! :rolleyes: The Artic Cooling Freezer64 Pro was another story in itself. EGADS! Two full cans of air cleaner still saw more on that after peeling a nice wool blanket off of the board!
 
Man, I've never even heard of cleaner. I usually just take the case off and use a dyson hoover attatchment to suck all the dust out. I don't touch anything of course, then I dust it down with a sort of brush they use when digging up fossils :P.

Thanks for your help PC eye ;)
 
Since you upgraded from 98 I assume you left the Fat32 primary instact when getting XP on? There's a method for seeing that converted into the NTFS file system rather then being stuck with Fat32 at this late date. Fortunately I was able to save the link from a few old builds for the MS arucle explaining how to do with XP installed as seen at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307881
 
Thanks a lot, I've converted to NTFS now. I didn't even know about that.
What's the difference between them?

Many thanks mate,
Vic
 
NTFS or NT File System is far better overall then the old File Allocation Table dos based system. You can access data faster and more reliably then seen with the older type of partition there.

NT 3.1 was the first 32bit based network geared version of Windows while Fat16 was seen with 3.1 having followed the initial 1.0 and 2.0 start off of Windows with 98 following the service pack supporting 32bit program in the still 16bit 95. Following the ME flop with that being the successor to 98 still using Fat32 MS incorporated NTFS and the NT core into the next desktop version being XP.

Even XP saw quite a few bugs with the two large service packs SP1 and SP2 to come along with fixes as well as security and software updates for Windows with additional options for seeing what hardware and other software updates are available when using the custom not ecpress option at the update site. You can also uncheck any particular updates not wanted or seeing problems using custom.
 
That's good news! I fought for a long time to get someone known here to simply see that done following an upgrade from 98 to XP where the installation there was simply left on the original Fat32 primary. That was also one of the cases worked on lately where the drive itself went toast.
 
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