Hi if anyone has time I need serious help....
ok i tried to upgrade to win xp
it told me to delete the partition
i did....
then it couldn't recognize my old op system so with no avail i gave up....
so i finally found my old win 2000 pro disk and reinstall....
wiping off all the old data and everything....
now i get the bios page then it acts like its gonna boot but....
it doesn't all i get is "error loading operating system"
argh!!!! now what do I do????????
PLEASE TELL ME!!!!
Are you booting from the CD, which is what needs to be done?
yes i did that and then the pc restarts...
then i get the message....
I think that deleting a partition has got your system out of a state of grace.
I hope you've got your important data backed up and it wasn't on the partition you deleted.
I would boot from the CD and completely reformat the HDD. That means using FDISK to set up a single partition (NTFS) to become the C: drive. Then Format the disk. Then use the CD to install your operating system.
ok how do i do that...
everything is gone...
it's all one partition.....
You boot from the Windows XP CD and drive SETUP.EXE from the command line assuming the disk is now NTFS formatted.
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