reformating hard drive

[Guest]

While trying to reformat my hard drive in Windows XP Pro, I got this error
message,
An unexpected error(116) occured at line 1773 in
d:xpsprtm\base\boot\setup\arcdisp.c

 

[Shenan Stanley]

While trying to reformat my hard drive in Windows XP Pro, I got
this error message,
An unexpected error(116) occured at line 1773 in
d:xpsprtm\base\boot\setup\arcdisp.c

A few questions...

What drive (letter) are you attempting to format?

Is it another physical drive or is it another partition on the same physical
drive as your Windows XP System files?

When you attempt to format the drive, *how* are you doing this? Through
device manager and deleting the partition/creating a new one and formatting
it? Command prompt? Right-click and format? During the setup phase of
Windows XP?

 

[Guest]

a few weeks ago I had my computer in the repair shop to have windows
reinstalled.
After getting it back, I got a pop up, that said there was a serious system
error, it was sent to Microsoft. The return reply said a bad device driver. I
thought the problem was solved, everything worked fine for a couple of weeks,
then locked up.
The bad device might be my dvd rom drive, if the error 116 was in d:,
because my hard drive is c