help !!!!!! i cant format my hd

help !!!!!! i cant format my hd shut down when i finish to install the floppy 6 and the comp restart nd i have to do everithing again any idea ?? need more information ??? plzz some one help

 

I will be glad to help but i dont understand your post? What do you mean install the floppy 6?

Is your Hard drive being detected by your bios?

 

well i have this lap top but dont ahve anithing means wen i turn on apears from where i want to reboot from cd drive or bios or hard drive or floppy and i download the floppy boot from microsoft and the program ask 6 floppys and i installe so i have the 6 floppys and i start the boot but wen finaly i finish to install the floppy # 6 shout down and i have to restart again and thx y fi u can help my !!!!! any body intrested in mi big problem sugetions are welcome !!!!!!!

 

Ok i think i decrypted some of your message!...

You have 6 Floppy discs?? Why? What did you download off Microsoft's website?

Are you trying to install Windows XP onto your laptop?

 

Rosco, the reason for the 6 floppys is that way back when, when XP was first released, the majority of computers did not have the capabiliy of booting from a CD drive. Microsoft posted the startup disks info on their website. The 6 floppys actually run the startup stuff you see before the main install window.

I think that Elpitote thinks that the 6 floppys contain the entire XP OS. My guess is that he/she does not have an XP CD.

 

Yeah Granpa your wright! I predicted that he/she might have thought it was the full XP operating system on 6 Floppys....

 

ha ha ha thx for for decript mi message my english is not very well as i speck any way i do have the cd of windows xp the licence and everything now as u say about the floppy ist correct but wen i finish to install the floppy # 6 the copm shout down again and i have to restart again a am sorry about the way i whrite but i never take english class everuthing i learn from movies on subtitles on english but plzz dont get mad i come to u guys because u are better then other teachers the make waste ur time and never learn nothing u guys are genius thx for the help any body intrested in my trouble ?????? any suggestion are welcome !!!!! i am ready for tray anything on mi comp plzz thx again for hopw reads the message thx

 

a 1 more think he is for guy so i am he becauso iam a man ha ha thx

 

Its OK, the language barrier is hard to cross, i couldnt imagine me writing in your language! : )

So... You have the XP CD.... If you go into your BIOS on the laptop you may be able to make your CD drive Bootable?... To get into your BIOS you usually his the "Del" key on your keyboard as soon as you turn your laptop on... It could also br the "F1" or "F2" key!!

In the BIOS you should find your Boot order... 1st device, 2nd device, 3rd device.... Make your 1st device "CD ROM", 2nd device can be "FLOPPY" and the 3rd your "HARD DISC"....

Now you can try and BOOT from the XP CD....

 

thx for understan now i try the bios but when i tri on cd rom boot shout down so thats y i tri whi the boot floppy program from microsoft but like i say when i finish to install the floppy # 6 the copm ask for the cd of windows but i insert on the cd rom and shout down thast y i say wen i finaly finish to install de #6 shout downi dont know what to do well i try whit the network but says PXE-E53:no boot filename received and then says
PXE-MOF:exiting intel pxe rom
so thas means i try 3 diferents ways what can i do ????
what i doing wrong thx for the help rosco any body intrested on this little trouble ?????? sugestions are welcome!!!!! ready for try anything thx for how reads the articles

 

Ahhh i understand, you have have tried the CD and still shuts the laptop down.... I think you may have a problem with the hardware in the laptop... How old is the laptop now?

 

is a celeron procesor 256 memoria ram and the hd is 20 gigas

 

no very old 1 year and 1/2 ago a buy it dont remeber the speed but when i buy it the windows was xp home edition and i change it for xp profecional and both programs run very good untill cuople of days shout down and start try every thing to make run and still of service my laptop thx for help any body intrested in my trouble ?????? any suggestion are welcome !!!!! i am ready for try anything thx again for how reads the message thx thx agin rosco and u too ddp thx

 

yes i change by my self and is on the back and the dimms are pc 133 128 each they work rigth until the comp shout down i dont know now if anything is bad ( hardware ) thx for help any body intrested in my trouble ?????? any suggestion are welcome !!!!! i am ready for try anything thx again for how reads the message thx thx again ddp thx

 

ahhh, I stand corrected on the not having an XP disk. As Rosco said, you may have a hardware problem.

And don't worry about your English. It is fine. We can understand you, now. You just didn't give enough information before.

Another guess here. It may be shutting down, because it can't find a valid hard drive. You might have to use a Win 98 or ME boot disk and fdisk to get rid of the partion(s) on the hard drive, then partition it with valid partitions. I had to do that when my HighPoint raid card killed all 4 partitions of my hard drive. The only way that I could load Windows XP was to use an ME boot disk and go through the fdisk process.

As I said, this is just a guess.

 

how do i do tha ??? i mean the i have to install win 98 to partiton mi hd and then re install win xp ???? and what is me boot disk and fdisk i dont know ?? thx again all of u guysthx for help any body intrested in my trouble ?????? any suggestion are welcome !!!!! i am ready for try anything thx again for how reads the message thx

 

Just use your floppy disk or XP cd to reformat your hard drive. When starting your computer, press F2 to get to Setup, go to Boot and Boot Priority, then make boot from Floppy drive or CD/DVD-ROM drive your choice, and Hard Drive 3rd, etc. Restart your computer again with your Floppy disk inside your Floppy drive and go from there. Go here http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;313348 and take note from it. Good luck and I hope you'll solve the problem in due time.