I'll start up by stating the situation.
On a new (3 month old) packard bell imedia 5020 i had two partitions. The first one being ubuntu feisty , the second one being vista home premium. I loved both. Because i screwed up ubuntu I booted into vista. Installed acronis boot manager, formatted the first partion to ntfs and rebooted. Grub bootmanager gave me error 22 (logical, since I deleted ubuntu ) I usually use super grub disk to repair windows mbr. However i was unable to boot any cd's (yes the bios was set up to boot from cd and i used f8 and choose cd to boot more than once). No cd's would boot (including ubuntu feisty, linux mint cassandra, plos2007, gparted live cd, super grub disk, xp).
I then installed another cd-rom from an old computer. This time instead of ignoring the cd and going straight to the hard drive thus giving grub error 22), the screen remains black. When i pull out the cd, the hard drive loads and gives the grub error.
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2007-10-30 11:04:28 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
However, xp home will load. When i need to choose a partition, i choose and it says the partition isn't xp compatible. I found something on a forum here:
http://forum.ncix.com/forums/index.php?mode=showthread&forum=198&threadid=1054958&pagenumber=1&subpage=1
But i don't understand the guys solution. And i only have one hard drive.
Any help guys?
2007-10-30 11:08:14 · update #1
Follow Cory 2107's advice,
2007-10-31 00:10:11 · answer #1 · answered by oldersox 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you have a floppy drive, get a Windows 98 boot disk with CD-ROM support. Boot from the floppy and boot w/ CD support. You will get an MS-DOS prompt. Type fdisk and press enter. Select the option to delete partitions. Delete the screwy partition completely, then make a new FAT32 partition with fdisk. Use maximum disk space available. This will give you the rest of your hard disk space. Enable Large Hard Drive Support or whatever it's called and make sure you make the new partition active. Put the WinXP CD in the drive. On the Win98 MS-DOS thing type e: and press enter (where E: is the CD-ROM drive letter). Then type "cd i386" and press enter (no quotations, make sure you include the space). When you are in directory E:\i386 (where E: is bla bla bla), type winnt.exe and press enter. It will guide you throught extraction of WinXP setup files. Reboot the computer when it tells you to and when it reoots make sure BIOS boots from the new partition you made and it will open Windows XP setup. Follow the steps to install WinXP on the new hard drive. If you want NTFS, select to convert the drive to NTFS during XP setup. Do not Format to NTFS, as this will delete your setup files and when you select next it will make setup crash. For more info e-mail cory2107@gmail.com
2007-10-30 11:20:22 · answer #2 · answered by cory2107 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Antivirus XP 2008 is a suspect anti-undercover agent ware application that have a collection of useful properties which do not artwork, and produces fake positives which will goad the consumer into paying for the applying. Antivirus XP 2008 show somewhat some pop-up classified ads and pretend protection messages, which will disturb your artwork and decelerate computer overall performance. Antivirus XP 2008 is a basically like XP Antivirus pretend antispyware. that's recomended to eliminate Antivirus XP 2008 out of your computer. --------- use handbook eliminating handbook
2016-09-28 02:07:15 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is a complete wipe of your HD out of the question? Sounds like you have many bugs and why Vista anyway? For fun you can read up on the differences of Vista's boot manager and XP. (They ain't the same and do not play well together)
If it was mine I'd wipe it clean with DBAN and reinstall XP. Wait a few years for Vista to actually work.
2007-10-30 11:17:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Use the xp home to boot and reformat the hard drive to ntfs again
2007-10-30 12:02:57 · answer #5 · answered by Joe P 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you can get to the boot menue then try to load the windows recovery it will erase all your files but if you just got your computer u shouldnt have to many files anyway... then if you still want xp you can put it on
2007-10-30 11:09:53 · answer #6 · answered by nick 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
do u have like virus or something or first format ur harddrive and then install windows xp
2007-10-30 11:58:58 · answer #7 · answered by jesus hinojosa 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi. First thing I would try is a BIOS reset. (Remove battery, move jumper, etc.)
2007-10-30 11:15:01 · answer #8 · answered by Cirric 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋