Need Help

[DarkClown12]

\trying to put a operating system on this new comp it had 98 i want to put win xp on it, but i need to wipe the harddrive and it is slow and also freezes during install and wont take a operating sys.

[Virtualbody1234]

What's your question?

[DarkClown12]

How can i wipe out the harddrive and do a clean install of a OS?

[Virtualbody1234]

Boot the XP CD and delete existing partition(s) and create new one(s). Then format using NTFS.

Those tools are built-in to the XP installer.

[DarkClown12]

when i try to install xp i get the blue screen of death

[tesco]

Originally posted by DarkClown12@15 March 2004 - 22:40
when i try to install xp i get the blue screen of death

try using FAT32 instead of NTFS, or vice-versa, ive had problems like that with my old computers hard drive, but i always end up converting to NTFS after its finished installing.

Can you tell us what the error code is? it might be able to help us find whats worng.

[DarkClown12]

well it was some install error now it says error loading OS

[tesco]

Originally posted by DarkClown12@15 March 2004 - 23:28
well it was some install error now it says error loading OS

try installing again using the oposite file system you used last time (unless u already tried both) and if you still get the error you have to tell us what it says.

[DarkClown12]

The xp pro install says Sessions Initilization Error

[peat moss]

Try using a win98 start up disk first. Run fdisk. Then reboot with winxp cd and you should be set to start formatting.

http://sft-cyber.com/Win98Me.htm