Am trying to install win XP home. i manage to get the drive formated fine windows does its install thing then goes to reboot , and this is where the trouble starts. Instead of rebooting and continuing to load windows it goes right back to the beginngn loads basic win files and goes to the page where you choose which partition to install on. It odes this over and over and over again. Ive tried 3 different drives with the same results on each. Ive tried fromatting to NTFS and FAT 32 makes no difference.
Ive been unable to find a format command utility anywhere other than the one that comes on the win cd. I'm thinking thers some left over boot data on the disk's (all used harddrives) that may be causing the problem but have never encountered it before after 8 years of tearing and rebuilding sytems for my self frineds and family.
Is there anywher i can go to get a good formatting utility that will run from the floppy in DOS mode.
Any suggestions are apreciated.
Thanks
Ive been unable to find a format command utility anywhere other than the one that comes on the win cd. I'm thinking thers some left over boot data on the disk's (all used harddrives) that may be causing the problem but have never encountered it before after 8 years of tearing and rebuilding sytems for my self frineds and family.
Is there anywher i can go to get a good formatting utility that will run from the floppy in DOS mode.
Any suggestions are apreciated.
Thanks