ok so my HD wouldn't boot in XP (not even in safe mode), so i decided to backup and format...
took it to a friend's house who lives on the other side of town (but has a burner...) and created my 7 backu CDRs....ok now to format...
so i download a windowsME bootdisk cuz it has cdrom support in dos (for installing windowsXP later - my cd won't boot).
ok so i boot from the floppy and start format...
checking for bad sectors, 100% complete
verifying files.... 33% and then stops
i redo and stops at 12%
go sleep. next morning stops at 12% again.
just says: "Not Ready. / Format Terminated"
wtf is this? ive never seen this before... im considering just reinstalling windows ontop of my old installation but am still wondering why it won't format...
took it to a friend's house who lives on the other side of town (but has a burner...) and created my 7 backu CDRs....ok now to format...
so i download a windowsME bootdisk cuz it has cdrom support in dos (for installing windowsXP later - my cd won't boot).
ok so i boot from the floppy and start format...
checking for bad sectors, 100% complete
verifying files.... 33% and then stops
i redo and stops at 12%
go sleep. next morning stops at 12% again.
just says: "Not Ready. / Format Terminated"
wtf is this? ive never seen this before... im considering just reinstalling windows ontop of my old installation but am still wondering why it won't format...