Formating new partition

[Guest]

Hi,
My laptop crashed, and I am attempting to reinstall WXP. I deleted the
partition (which was my whole 38MB hard drive), and then made a new partition
(with the whole HD), The install cd said the drive needed to be formatted
before the install could continue, so I hit 'enter". This was an hour ago.
It says "setup is formatting...", but the status bar still reads 0%? Is this
normal, or am I screwed?
Thanks

 

[Guest]

If youre useing a retail xp cd,install cd,boot to cd,select install
xp,delete the
partition(s),create one,then xp will format and install auto.

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

Does the drive activity light on the front of the tower show any activity? I
wouldn't worry so much about the progress bar if it does. If it does not,
then something has caused the process to halt. I would restart the system
and try again (and I should think that would be 38GB, not MB).

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Guest]

Thanls for the help. I stopped the process, and repartitioned to 8GB. Then
tried to use the "quick NTFS" install, but after Windows was supposedly
loaded, I got a disk read error. I read that the quick method will not fix
bad sectors, so here we are again. I restarted it and 8 hours or so later we
are at 5%.

 

[Kerry Brown]

You may need a new hard drive. This may be the reason your laptop crashed in
the first place.