Reinstalling Xp home.Trying to format hard drive (clear up crap)82% for 12 hours,will go no further.Help.?

Question

Hard drive 6 months old.Blue screen,info formatting drive c,yellow bar on bottom showing 82%.

Thank you for all replys.They have all helped one way or the other.Went with the quick format,everything now running like brand new.Thanks again.

Answer 1

This can be one of many reasons.Bad hard Disk or Bad RAM or bad software. I will put it in laymans terms when formatting software is used to format the disk. If that software is corrupt you will get the blue screen of death. What you need to look at is the following. If the software is written to an original cd of xp then there should be no problem. Next thing to look at is bad disk. Try disconnecting all peripherals I.e any extra devices eg network card or extra cd roms and then formatting. If this does not work then you have no incompatibility problems. Next check the cd rom you are formatting from is working properly as it is this that is transferring media into your boot sector (ram)to format the disk. Try another cd rom drive. After using another cd rom and the problem still occurs look at another ram chip.(logical thought process this eh)The way it all works is disk in cd rom loads info into ram.Ram then carries out format format crashes problem with ram. Insert new ram (don't buy just borrow) run format if disk crashes problem is definitely hard disk. I know its the long way to do things but it is all logical. Hope this helps. If not mail me at [e-mail]

Answer 2

Start up with a Windows 98 (yes 98) boot floppy.

Run Fdisk

Select Add or remove Partition

Select Delete Non Dos Partition

Once deleted Retry Format with XP disk

Boot Disks can be downloaded from

Answer 3

Sounds like hard drive has bad sectors which will not format, may need to do a hard drive health check, but if available best to replace the hard drive, normally when sectors start to get corrupt the drive is on it's way out anyway

Answer 4

ur hard disk as a problem don't try full format try formatting in quick format which will install in 45 minutes, max due to the problem in hard disk it is not allowing to format behond 82%,

it still the problem try fdisk in windowd 98 installation disk, install 98 and then fresh install XP which will ok instead of wait for 12 hours u better try this way it will be easy and good the way i did for the one of my costumer's hard disk

Answer 5

your hard drive has bad sectors,these can be fixed ,download this tool,it runs from a floppy disk...http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-US&name=SeaTools&vgnextoid=720bd20cacdec010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD
this will run through your hard drive and fix any bad sectors,i fixed a 40gb seagate barracuda hdd,was doing exactly whats going on with your drive
i was going to sling it but thought i would give that program a go and now its fine
once the tool has finished and fixed all bad sectors,format the drive using a start up disk...format c:
the start the re-installation again
good luck

Answer 6

XP home is like the Xp professional - just insert cd, it will start and go through until you get to the screen partition : then choose drive - C and choose partition "quick" on NTFS.

Answer 7

prior to formatting did you delete and re-create the old partition? then once done that, have you tried doing the quick format option? (should take less than a minute!)

Answer 8

Need more information . How did or are you formatting. Does it give you any information on screen ?
i'll check back later .. and i can't believe you let it run for 12 hours . you have more patience than me !

Answer 9

i cant help you man the only thing i would say is to get rid of some files or programs or format the hard drive, but your already doing that

Answer 10

Have you tried testing your RAM? Windows will not install if there is a bad ram stick in your computer. Try booting a program called MEMTEST, this will tell you if you have any problems with the ram.