FDISK FOOL

[Guest]

Hi there,

I was having loads of prblems with trying to reinstall windows (do a search
for jc) and I,m not sure where i got the idea, but i ran fdisk on my computer
and now i have major problems. For a start I wasn't sure which options to
press and i'm ashamed to say i tried all or most of them and now my computer
can't even read from drive c. The plan was to wipe the drive and then
reinstall windows. After I ran the dreaded fdisk thingy , from a floppy disk,
i tried to go to drive c and i got this message,..............
"invalid media type reading drive c. I could acces the xp setup disk from
drive x: " but when i tried to run this i got this message........."this
program cannot be run in dos mode.........."

Please, please help.This is my daughters computer and i am now the most
hated dad in the UK.

Ta for all help.
JC

 

[Guest]

Hi there,

I was having loads of prblems with trying to reinstall windows (do a search
for jc) and I,m not sure where i got the idea, but i ran fdisk on my computer
and now i have major problems. For a start I wasn't sure which options to
press and i'm ashamed to say i tried all or most of them and now my computer
can't even read from drive c. The plan was to wipe the drive and then
reinstall windows. After I ran the dreaded fdisk thingy , from a floppy disk,
i tried to go to drive c and i got this message,..............
"invalid media type reading drive c. I could acces the xp setup disk from
drive x: " but when i tried to run this i got this message........."this
program cannot be run in dos mode.........."

Please, please help.This is my daughters computer and i am now the most
hated dad in the UK.

Ta for all help.
JC

Why you didn't use the installation XP Disk to Partition and FDISK (format
your partition) utilities?.
Read this article by MVP Michael Steven and then make sure the BIOS Boot up
option is set to boot from CD then Hard drive.
Clean Install Windows XP
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html
HTH.
nass

 

[Guest]

Hi Nas

I tried to carry out the instructions you suggested and gort the following
messages....

"an enternal setup error has occured , cannot find a place for a swap file"
.. Also getting, " search for boot records from cd, error loading operating
systems."
Can you help?

Ta

 

[Guest]

can anyone help me, please.

Ta

 

[Guest]

Hi,
Try to Access the BIOS and Make the First boot device your CD-ROM then the
Hard Drive and Reboot with XP CD in the Drive, then Hit any Key to start the
SetUp procedure, setup will copy the files and then prompt you to Set on the
existing partition or delete all partition and create a new one(s), select to
delete all partition then create a new One(s) like C, D partitions and make C
the Primary one (Active) partition.
Then Format C which you will elect to install your Operating system on.
The windows or the setup will ask you do you want to install Xp on this
Partition (C:\) Hit "Y" or Enter to select and the installation should start.
Note: Unattached any Devices attached to the computer before perform the
above, like Printer, External Storage or something like that.
http://search.microsoft.com/results...&qsc0=0&SearchBtn0=Search&mkt=en-US&FORM=SSME
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/mi...r+has+occurred+&rnum=1&hl=en#df9072711bcc7269
HTH.
nass

 

[Patrick Keenan]

Hi there,

I was having loads of prblems with trying to reinstall windows (do a
search
for jc) and I,m not sure where i got the idea, but i ran fdisk on my
computer
and now i have major problems. For a start I wasn't sure which options to
press and i'm ashamed to say i tried all or most of them and now my
computer
can't even read from drive c. The plan was to wipe the drive and then
reinstall windows. After I ran the dreaded fdisk thingy , from a floppy
disk,
i tried to go to drive c and i got this message,..............
"invalid media type reading drive c.

That's because there is no partition after running FDISK, unless you also
created a new partition. Then, you have to format it.

Normally this is done from the XP boot disk, where the utility is called
diskpart.

There can be another reason for this message - you booted from a win9x
diskette and ran fdisk, right? Your XP disk was most likely formatted as
NTFS, and Win9x boot diskettes cannot read NTFS-formatted partitions. But
if you ran fdisk, the partition was gone anyway.

I could acces the xp setup disk from
drive x: " but when i tried to run this i got this message........."this
program cannot be run in dos mode.........."

You don't run setup that way. Boot from the CD.

It is possible to run setup from a dos prompt, but IIRC the command is
actually 'winnt'. .

Please, please help.This is my daughters computer and i am now the most
hated dad in the UK.

Ta for all help.
JC

Set the system to boot from the CD, do so, and do a clean installation
(though you have no choice at this point). Follow the steps presented to
you carefully.

You will have to create a partition *first* and you will be led to this.
You might remove the partition you maybe made with fdisk and create a new
one, the full size of the disk. You'll be back up in a few hours. All
her data and settings are, of course, gone.

HTH
-pk

 

[DL]

afraid this is not a chat room - nass is giving you good advice

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Hi there,

I was having loads of prblems with trying to reinstall windows (do a search
for jc) and I,m not sure where i got the idea, but i ran fdisk on my computer
and now i have major problems. For a start I wasn't sure which options to
press and i'm ashamed to say i tried all or most of them and now my computer
can't even read from drive c. The plan was to wipe the drive and then
reinstall windows. After I ran the dreaded fdisk thingy , from a floppy disk,
i tried to go to drive c and i got this message,..............
"invalid media type reading drive c. I could acces the xp setup disk from
drive x: " but when i tried to run this i got this message........."this
program cannot be run in dos mode.........."

Please, please help.This is my daughters computer and i am now the most
hated dad in the UK.

Ta for all help.
JC

FDisk is an old MS-DOS utility that is neither available or needed
in WinXP. All legitimate WinXP installation CDs are bootable and have
the capability of deleting, creating, and formatting partitions.

Simply boot from the WinXP installation CD. You'll be offered the
opportunity to delete, create, and format partitions as part of the
installation process. (You may need to re-arrange the order of boot
devices in the PC's BIOS to boot from the CD.)

HOW TO Install Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;316941

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/clean_install.htm


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Bruce Chambers

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