reformat xp pro

[Guest]

I tried to reformat my hard drive by booting to xp pro cd but my computer
shuts down before xp goes through all it's checks. My hard drive is a new WD
160 gig. Any sugestion?

 

[peterk]

What do you mean by "shuts down"??
power goes off??
XP Installation shuts it down........and it does not reboot??
At what stage formatting or installation does this happen??
peterk

 

[Guest]

Did you use the installation CD that came with your hard drive to initialize
the drive?