Format C hard drive...could not do it

[Svnla]

Client has a generic Pent 4 that stuck at the windows XP logo screen. I checked all the hardware and we think the problem was the hard drive.

I boot up the XP cd, ..hit enter to reinstall windows....all good until it up to the "setup windows" screen. It will blink then showed the blue screen with these:

Driver_IRQL-Not_Less_Or_Equal...then a bunch of stuff such as Stop:0X000000D1(0X827C........

NTFS. SYS - address F812 base at F8124, Datestamp 41107

All I want is to reformat that hard drive and reinstall OEM XP Pro. TIA.

 

[StopSign]

Memory problem...?

Try to take the drive out and plug it into another computer. Format using Partition Magic or something.

 

[Ausm]

I would goto www.bootdisk.com and boot up on one of those images and it should work properly.


Ausm

 

[mc866]

Run DBAN on the drive to clean it, boot to the DBAN Cd, when it's complete reinstall XP

http://dban.sourceforge.net/

 

[corkyg]

All of the above suggestions are good ones. It is very possible that the drive is bad. I would also consider running the OEM's equivalent (for the brand involved) of the Drive Fitness Test (IBM-Hitachi), MaxBlast, etc. It might require a complete low level format first. That is usually an overnight job depending on the size of the drive.

 

[zest]

Is this the initial boot from the CD or is a subsequent reboot during the install process. If it's the initial install, you could manually copy the i386 folder and run winnt .

 

[LouPoir]

YOu could format the drive in another machine as suggested. But it does sound like you have another hardware problem -