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Discussion in 'Windows XP' started by NATH, 2004/07/22.

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  1. 2004/07/22
    NATH

    NATH Inactive Thread Starter

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    I Am Having Problem With My Windows Xp Home Edition. My System Crashes With Blue Screenof Death. Then It Saysdumping Physical Memory. I Used All The Fixes From Microsoft. Then Desided To Do Formating The Drive. I Have 12gb Hard Drive. Buti Get Only 2gb.i Was Using Fdisk. Then It Says Cannot Lock The Drive As It Is In Use. i Cannot Force It To Format. How Can I Solve This Problem.

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    PeteC

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    Nath -Welcome to the Board :)

    Your best bet is to boot from the XP CD and reformat via that route ......

    Check in your BIOS that the boot order is set CD/Floppy/HD

    Boot from the Windows CD "“ follow the on screen prompts "¦..

    To set up Windows XP now press ENTER

    Accept the Licence Agreement F8

    Searching for previous versions of Windows

    To continue installing a fresh copy of Windows without repairing press ESC

    Ensure that the drive/partition selected is the one on which XP was set up and press D to delete the selected partition.

    To delete the partition press ENTER

    To delete the partition press L "“ heed the warnings and DOUBLE CHECK before hitting L

    To create a partition in the unpartitioned space press C

    Accept max size and press ENTER

    To set up Windows XP on the selected item (Partition (New Raw)) press ENTER
    Format the partition using the NTFS file system "“ preferred unless you want an install of Win 98 to access data on the drive/partition, if so choose FAT.

    Set up is formatting "¦â€¦

    When format is complete XP will install.

    When complete install your antivirus and firewall before you even think of connecting to the Internet. Update the virus definitions immediately and then go to Windows Updates and download the Critical updates.
     
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    Johanna

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    Since you describe such a small (by today's standards) hard drive, I am wondering about the rest of the machine. BSODs in XP are not very common, and if your hardware isn't sufficient for XP, no amount of reinstallation will help. How much memory do you use? What kind (and how big?) is the CPU?

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