total nightmare windows me to xp install went all wrong

[joanne hardy]

i am having great difficulties ok i was useing windows me i wanted to
upgrade to xp so i changed boot from floppy to cd then started set up , all
was great and dandy untill i erased partitioned space to set up on that
drive then went to formatting i think it was a fat 32 i pressed ntfs file
system then my computer finished formating then was copyin files and then
my comp cord got tripped over and shut off ...ok so now i start it and
nothing i get missing ntldr file then i went and got Windows XP
Professional with Service Pack 1 Utility: Setup Disks for Floppy Boot
Install ok so i was running through the 6 disks i get to setup disk 3 then
i get a error 4 message for missing KDCOM.DLL well so now im stuck
completely no matter what i try nothing is working for me please help me im
really frustrated with this should i just say f$*^ it and take it to a
computer expert or is it possible to actually fix with sum help ?? thanks
cheeky

 

[peter]

You should be able to restart your system with the XP CD in the Cd drive
with the drive set to 1st boot.
This should restart the XP setup.............go thru the new install
procedure and reformat the partition.
Actually the setup should start where it left off....
????
peter

 

[jmatt]

i am having great difficulties ok i was useing windows me i wanted to upgrade to xp.

Start again, use both of these, start with Zap 1st. Both can go on your
boot disk.
Zap
http://mirror.href.com/thestarman/asm/mbr/BootToolsRefs.htm#ZAP
http://www.storage.ibm.com/hdd/support/download.htm
Zap is a DOS software utility that writes zeroes to the first 128
sectors on a hard disk drive, including the Master Boot Record and the
first Partition Boot Record. It can be used with both SCSI and IDE
drives. This function is now included in the Drive Fitness Test.

=======================================

WIPE OUT
http://www.lurkhere.com/~nicefiles/index.html
http://www.lurkhere.com/~nicefiles/wipeout.zip
Freeware.
WIPE OUT: as the name implies, this utility will absolutely WIPE your
hard drive. For those times when an industrial strength cleaner is
needed to remove any pesky files Fdisk may have left behind. A readme
file is included in the zip file. WARNING...WIPE OUT will remove ALL
data from the Hard Drive.

DIRECTIONS

1- Unzip file
2- Copy WIPEOUT to a Win9x boot disk
3- Boot with Win9x disk, make sure the bios is set to boot from floppy
1st.
4- At the A:\> type "wipeout c: /nq /np" (no quotes)
/nq = no queries - you will not be asked if you are sure.
/np = no partitions - this will overwrite the MBR

Press Enter.

Now run fdisk to set up partitions.
http://fdisk.radified.com/
When done, reboot & format.

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Joanne;
Simply start over again by booting to the Windows XP CD:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/cleanxp.htm

As long as the BIOS is set to boot from the CD before hard drive you will
not need the floppies or any other utilities since everything needed is on
the Windows XP CD.

 

[joanne hardy]

hi thank you for the help im gonna try this but before i do i have tried
booting it from my xp cd my me came with the comp so ive no disk to run for
the original operating system that came with it so i was trying to install
xp home and i have an actual disk so i tried and it gets to where it says
missing or corrupt NTLDR so then it says cntrl alt del and restarts
over and over so i tried boot disks 6 of them it got to disk three and says
missing kdcom.dll and restarts and so on so the actal install dont get much
past asking me if i wanna use asr i think its called them stopps and dead
end so now i will try this again thanks joanne

 

[peter]

.. Corrupt boot sector / master boot record - Use a boot disk, or if you are
using XP, boot to the recovery console. Type fixmbr and fixboot to correct
the boot record/sector.

recovery console
http://www.windowsnetworking.com/j_helmig/wxprcons.htm

good luck
peter