So im over at my friends house trying to reformat his computer. He already has windows XP Pro and i just want to wipe the harddrive and then reinstall Win XP Pro. SO i do what i do whenver i reformat, i make usre i have a booteable cd and then i set the boot option to CD-ROM in the bios, BUT his bios doesn have an option like mine does. there are 4 or 5 tabvs at the top listed main, advanced, BOOT etc. so i look at the different tabs and i try to fin anything that would suggest i could boot from one of his optical drives. He has 2 an older cd bruner drive and a new DVD burner/cdburner drive. The drive works because we saved all his stuff to dvds before we decided to reformat, anyway when i do what i thionk will make it bot from cd and i restart it says that i need to insert system disk and it doenst work.
The next thing i tried was the long way which is DOS format c:, but the only dos i could get to was the dos prompt option in window under accessories, and when i try to do that it says something about mounted volumes and making them invalid, so i say what the heck and say yes, and then it tells me it cant do it becuase volume is something like in use or something.
does anyone know anything about this or something similar and if you do could u help me figure it out so i can reformat his pc cause it really needs it.
thanks in advance.
The next thing i tried was the long way which is DOS format c:, but the only dos i could get to was the dos prompt option in window under accessories, and when i try to do that it says something about mounted volumes and making them invalid, so i say what the heck and say yes, and then it tells me it cant do it becuase volume is something like in use or something.
does anyone know anything about this or something similar and if you do could u help me figure it out so i can reformat his pc cause it really needs it.
thanks in advance.
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