I have an HP that i am trying to rebuild, i have been able to finally delete the partitions using an old windows 95 bootdisk, using the fdisk feature. I have a xp pro cd that i am trying to laod from but cannot get the computer to read it. it keeps reading the a: drive (floppy). The bootdisk i have gives a Runtieme error 200 at 084e:0091. I cant get the pc to read the cd drive so i can load the new os is there anything I can do to get this thing to work. I have also tried using a windows 98 bootdsik but i must not have created it correct cause it calls is a non-systmes disk. Any help is much apperciated.
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Is your Bios setup to boot from CD's ahead of the hard drive?
HOW TO: Partition and Format a Hard Disk in Windows XP (Q313348)
Read the paragraph,
"How to Partition and Format Your Hard Disk by Using Windows XP Setup."
For more help (shows enlargeable screenshots) go here.
HOW TO: Partition and Format a Hard Disk in Windows XP (Q313348)
Read the paragraph,
"How to Partition and Format Your Hard Disk by Using Windows XP Setup."
For more help (shows enlargeable screenshots) go here.
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How old is this HP?
System Specs?
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I got it to finally work by finding an old win 95 boot disk and using fdisk off of that, now my only problem is the video, I was finally able to increase the screen to 1028 X720 from 640 x 480 but now I only get 7 colors to display. I have looked an found no drivers that are needed for a standard monitor and it is an onboard card. I am going to try adding a new video board and see what happens.
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