re: Have no operating system - install xp pro
Sunday, May 10, 2009 at 7:23 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ricer46
(23825 messages posted)
Seems to me that the message was very clear: "The disk is damaged."
You need to replace the hard drive.
On Sunday, May 10, 2009 at 3:34 am, danni wrote:
>Please help me - I could not boot into windows xp pro. Kept getting - system32driverspci.sys
>- I had tried to repair and also reinstall but it would not let me do either, so
>then I decided to install w98se. The laptop is an Acer Travelmate 6000 with about
>1g Ram. Setup 98se deleted my xp pro and when I had to put a floppy (laptop does
>not have one) I shut the system down - When I rebooted from the hd I get the Acer
>Flash screen then the following:
>'' Broadcom UNDI PXE-2.1 (build082) v6.2.2
>Copyright .....
>Copyright ...
>All rights reserved
>PXE-E61: Media test failed, check cable
>PXE-M0F: Exiting Broadcom PXE ROM
>Operating System not found''
>
>I am able to boot from the cd. I have managed to start the xp pro set up but when
>it goes to format I get a message -''setup was unable to format the partition. The
>disk is damaged. You must select a different partition for xp'' That is the only
>partition on the drive. The laptop has only one partition. I am now back to the
>xp setup screen that has the three choices - setup, create a partition or delete
>the existing partition. If I delete this partition will I still be able to install
>xp pro.
>
>I hope I have made sense. Thanking you
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