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re: Clean Install
Friday, October 28, 2005 at 9:07 am
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Posted by Tim B (67 messages posted)


It seems happy enough with the WinCD but after the setup has finished and it tries to start Win, it says it cant find hard drive.....I assume this was because I erased partition c....I've now got no access to the OP to run Partition Magic or anything....Basically I've "deleted" the HD. Hope you can help


On Friday, October 28, 2005 at 6:18 am, Tim B wrote:
>Ok. I'm really in trouble now...Thanks to those who replied to my cry for help yesterday....I've
>now formatted C: via DOS. The installation from cd appears to be going ok, but asks
>for a Boot Disk......I didn't have one of these, so downloaded what I think is the
>correct one from MS, but this returns an error as soon as disk2 starts...Does this
>mean I need the professionals? Thought repairing Windows was never a problem with
>the CD as long as you dont mind losing contents of drive....Any last suggestions?


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Clean Install (Tim B: Friday, October 28, 2005 at 6:18 am)

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All messages in this thread [show all]
-Clean Install (Tim B: Fri, Oct 28, 2005, 6:18 am)
*re: Clean Install (LarryP: Fri, Oct 28, 2005, 6:42 am)
*re: Clean Install (Cam: Fri, Oct 28, 2005, 6:46 am)
*re: Clean Install (Tim B: Fri, Oct 28, 2005, 9:07 am)
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