Need some help here. Was attempting my first re installation of Windows XP Home on my brothers Dell Inspiron 1100 Laptop.
Went into the BIOS and set boot order to 1. CD/DVD Drive, then used the factory disk that came with the unit.
Booted from the disk drive just fine. Chose to install windows by pressing "Enter", deleted the D:\ partition and failed to delete the C:\ partition on the hard disk before starting NTFS (quick) formatting, but didn't realize that til after the reformatting ended at 100% saying that it had 'failed due to a corrupt or damaged disk.'
Now windows install doesn't recognize the hard drive to install Windows XP on to.
Suggestions?
Went into the BIOS and set boot order to 1. CD/DVD Drive, then used the factory disk that came with the unit.
Booted from the disk drive just fine. Chose to install windows by pressing "Enter", deleted the D:\ partition and failed to delete the C:\ partition on the hard disk before starting NTFS (quick) formatting, but didn't realize that til after the reformatting ended at 100% saying that it had 'failed due to a corrupt or damaged disk.'
Now windows install doesn't recognize the hard drive to install Windows XP on to.
Suggestions?