Lost my NTFS File Type

[Sam Lewendon]

Hello Again,
I tried to Format my XP using the CD and first lost my
File format, and then managed to get a Fat format, but
whenever I try to reinstall it comes up with an error
saying Disk may have problems, yet its worked countless
times before when reinstalling XP. Any help would be
great, I think what I need to do is get an NTFS filetype
and then install, but how? I tried using the SP1
floppies, but they failed me with error code 8. Thanks
for help.

 

[Sam Lewendon]

-----Original Message-----
Hello Again,
I tried to Format my XP using the CD and first lost my
File format, and then managed to get a Fat format, but
whenever I try to reinstall it comes up with an error
saying Disk may have problems, yet its worked countless
times before when reinstalling XP. Any help would be
great, I think what I need to do is get an NTFS filetype
and then install, but how? I tried using the SP1
floppies, but they failed me with error code 8. Thanks
for help.
.

Ok, I tried the other WinXP disks, and it worked to get
me to the setup, but again failed saying Disk Damage when
I tried to format to NTFS.

 

[Joseph Conway [MSFT]]

Sounds like your drive is going bad on you. Whats the exact error message?
Are you deleting and recreating the partition when you do the install?