cant format......

[krazieaznboi]

wen i boot my computer using the xp cd it tells me to press any key to reboot instead of press any key to boot from cd. wen i press any key the computer just reboots and tells me to press any key to reboot. this goes on and on.

 

[Diabetic]

Is your BIOS deffinately set to 'boot from CD' ?

 

[krazieaznboi]

yes.

 

[leje0306]

wen i boot my computer using the xp cd it tells me to press any key to reboot instead of press any key to boot from cd. wen i press any key the computer just reboots and tells me to press any key to reboot. this goes on and on.

Make sure that you have Windows CD 1 in the drive.

 

[krazieaznboi]

it doesnt format no matter wat. even if i put the HD into another computer as slave.

 

[Ethereal_Dragon]

Do you have a floppy drive? If you do, then start the computer with a windows startup disk in the floppy drive. What I do is I start up till I get to the DOS prompt, then go to FDISK, delete the partition, and build (a) new partition(s). I am not sure if this is bad for the HDD or not, I only do it with older drives that I could care less if they fail on me...

 

[asus7300gs]

So you dont have to go through the Google search, here it is:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...db-5039-4955-bcb7-4fed408ea73f&DisplayLang=en

 

[krazieaznboi]

it doesnt let me use fdsk. i can install linux on the HD but not windows..

 

[krazieaznboi]

is there anyway of installing windows xp widout formatting? i already formatted using linux