[lynne1971]

Please help, i have a friends pc here that crashed and went to blue screen whilst playing a game i have tried to go to all the options like safe mode ect and it just rebooted, so i did a format of drive c: when i tried to re install windows xp there where lots it wouldnt load, dll files sys files ect and then it goes to a blue screen again...
ps i spoke to a tech guy at work that told me to get rid of the partition and make it one fresh drive with a wipe now i am stuck with what to do

[flavallee]

Boot from the XP CD and then quickly press any key when the Press any key to boot from CD command appears.

When the blue setup screen appears, read the screen carefully. It'll tell you which key to press in order to perform a certain function. You want to perform these functions:

Delete all current partitions.

Create a new C partition.

Format that new C partition in the NTFS file system(Note: Don't select the quick option).

Install XP.

The entire process will involve 2 restarts. Do not(!) press any key when the above command appears during each restart. The command will disappear in a few seconds.

After you're done, you can remove the XP CD. When the 30-day activation pop-up appears, go on-line and activate XP. You don't need to register it.

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[lynne1971]

Hi thankyou for your reply but i have a bigger problem lol when i boot up i do the boot from cd it checks c drive then says adding files it fails on alot of them cdaudio.sys and fips.sys is 2 i can think off at the mo but there are alot more than that several dll files and bat files, i have to press enter to try again or esc to ignore, enter does nothing only one that works is ignore i do this serval times then it gets to 99pct and blue screen appears with alot of text saying about if this is the first time this has appeared ect you know the scrren i am sure lol then at the end the error is
***STOP: 0x000000DE (0x00000002,0xe16f9c10,0xe115a1,0x0c97186c)
any ideas? i have also tried putting the drive in my pc as a slave but i have totally diff conections for the drives

[itsjusme]

Here is a guide with screenshots of what you should see in the various steps. If this is not your version you can navigate to it and chose the right one. If you follow the instructions that flavallee gives in post 2 and look at these screenshots , you shouldn`t have any trouble. Let us know if you do with any error messages you get, or problems with the various steps.
http://www.windowsreinstall.com/winx...exfullpage.htm

[lynne1971]

i dont get to the setup screen or the partition screen it goes straight to the copying files needed for setup, i am just running memtest now so i will get back to you, i have dont hundreds of formats dont know why i am having so much trouble.. thanks for helping me here really appreciate it

[lynne1971]

ok stupid question if the drive hasnt formatted properly would this error occur, how can i format the drive fully with no os ?? i cant get it to do anything with the xp cd in and that just keeps crashing, sorry to be a thicky i normally figure this stuff out myself but i am stumped

[itsjusme]

Yes, it`s possible that for some reason the partition didnt get flagged as an active or boot partition, i have had that problem before and wound up using a third party partitioning tool. You could try that, or put the drive in another machine as a slave, format it and be sure to set it as active. There are a number of good partitioning tools available, i use Gparted which works well and it`s freeware.
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=gparted
You could also use Puppy Linux, which has Gparted already built in and it`s a great little OS and recovery tool.
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=puppy
These are live cd`s, download the .iso file and you can use Nero or similar to burn it as a disc image.

[lynne1971]

thanks ever so much i will try that next if and when memtest finishes lol would like to thank you for taking the time to help me out here )