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- Tue Jun 24, 2008 11:35 am #59597 Well my pc just stopped working all of a sudden, it comes up trying to boot or something then requires about the floppy drive then says it couldn't find it and then requires about the cd-rom drive and can't find it and just repeats these 2 steps, i wanna reformat my comp but have got an xp cd


Any ideas ?

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- Tue Jun 24, 2008 12:57 pm #59605 Go into Bios, change so it boots from CD-ROM.

Insert XP disc, follow on screen set-up, after it's installed and is going to restart, as it boots go into Bios again, change so it boots from HDD. It'll restart again.

complete install from HDD.

Crack it, free XP... Enjoy.

Edit - Oh yeah, the XP CD has a Format feature built on it. It sucks though as it only formats in FAT.

- Tue Jun 24, 2008 2:22 pm #59612 You see i know how to reformat my comp but i never wanted to i just booted the pc and it came up like it wants to reformat itself ?!!

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- Tue Jun 24, 2008 9:13 pm #59657 Lol, what did you do? you've probley got a start up problem, try flashing your Bios.

- Wed Jun 25, 2008 12:40 pm #59723 Cant do anything when that screens up mate

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- Wed Jun 25, 2008 5:48 pm #59759 reinstall windows m8

let the computer boot from cd

- Wed Jun 25, 2008 9:14 pm #59783 torrent xp off tpb,

- Wed Jun 25, 2008 9:55 pm #59796

Cant do anything when that screens up mate

Sound like you have a BIOS problem. As the computer boots, try pressing F8 and boot into safe mode. If you can't even get to the loading screen, try flashing your BIOS on your motherboard, you'll need to reset the jumper (depending on the mobo).

If this fails, do this...

Boot PC up,

Press Del button to get into the BIOS. (may be different button depending on make of motherboard)

Once in BIOS, look for boot sequence... Boot devices... Boot list, whatever your motherboard has called it.

Set CD-ROM as main boot device, HDD as second.

Exit BIOS and save.

(Computer will re-set)

As your PC boots, put the XP disc in

Follow on screen instructions to install it on your HDD.

XP will install in compression form on your HDD (takes about 15-30 mins depending on your set-up)

Then XP will want to re-start your computer

As it re-starts, press del again to go back into BIOS.

You will now want to set your HDD as your main boot device, then CD-ROM second this time.

Exit Bios, and save.

Upon re-start, XP will now continue to install on your HDD (extract itself)

then BAM, you're done.

If you are going with XP, make sure to get SP3. It rocks.

Personally, I'm with Vista at the mo.

- Thu Jun 26, 2008 10:52 am #59839 Cheers for the help dude, it would help however if i had an xp cd lol, if i got one off torrent do i need to burn it as is or as a dvd type file im not enterly sure

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- Thu Jun 26, 2008 11:55 am #59843 XP wont fit on a CD, inless you compress it (which causes problems finding files when installing). Easier to burn to a DVD.