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[Guest]

I was using windows XP pro and I tried to reformat and reinstall, but I fell
asleep during formatting. When I woke up my computer screen was blank. I
restarted and all I could get to besides BIOS was a blank screen. So I tried
to boot from the XP cd and reinstall but it says setup is inspecting hardware
configuration and again goes to a blank screen.
Could this be my hdd? I tried with my normal system except for an old spare
hdd and windows on that hdd loaded and the setup cd also worked...

 

[Rich Barry]

Kel, if you mean that you just swapped hard drives and the new drive
worked fine then Yes it could be the drive.
What I would try is go here www.bootdisk.com and get a Win98 boot
disk. Then go into the Bios and set the
floppy as first boot device. Boot with the newly created 98 disk and
when you get to the A:\ type: fdisk /mbr
then next type: format C: and just follow the instructions. Then try
the WinXP CD again.