Reformating Harddrive

[Maiku]

I tried installing Windows 2000 Pro on a new Maxtor Harddrive, while in the process of installing it i opened the cd rom by mistake and the formatting froze. Now when I boot up my system it says "operating system failed to load" or something and I don't know what to do. I tried downloading Powermax to low level format my harddrive but "Cannot load DOS!" Please help me.

 

[mechBgon]

Try just running Win2000 Setup from the CD again. When you get to the place where it thinks about the hard drives, delete any "unformatted/damaged" partitions (heck, delete all of them ), create them again and carry on. Welcome to the Forums, hope that helps

 

[Maiku]

This is the problem I'm having

http://forums.anandtech.com/me...3702&enterthread=y

 

[blodhi74]

as mech said try to running win2k from the cd and delete any created partions .... welcome to the forums and please dont double post