Hyperlite26
Member
Hello, Im having a little trouble trying to get a hard drive formatted. I know how to format the drive if I could get the machine to boot up into the A: drive and then switch to C: but the unit will not post, it just stops on the Hewlett Packard Logo screen. The unit has windows xp home edition on it and it had a problem that would come up when the guy would use it. I did a system restore to see if it would take care of him before I formatted the drive. I did restore it, xp came up fine but then it locked up as it was doing before. I was able to get back to the system restore & there was the option to go back to factory fresh settings so I decided to give it a go. This did not work because it has left me at the point Im stuck at right now. Start the comp up and it just sits at the HP logo screen. It does not post or beep but it did do so fine before the 2nd system restore, although once you tryed do anything it would lockup on you. Now the computer is bone stock and is a HP 7905 w\ Xp Home on it. The guy lost his HP XP disk but that's not really a concern. If I can just get back so I can format the thing then I should be able to make it go from there. I have hit f8,f10, del key at startup trying to get into the system so I can format the thing, no luck. I reset the jumper on the mobo, I tried a different hard drive but can't get past it. So does anyone have any ideas they can throw at me? I appreciate any and all advice.
