Hi,
I recently got a very bad virus and ended up having to reformat my HP laptop. I've attempted to do the following
1) Boot from a windows XP cd
2) Delete current partition with Windows on it
3) Continue with windows XP installation
Once compleated the laptop restarts and then goes to something called "HP recovery". I've attempted following the instructions for the recovery and right away quitting the recovery but in both instances I was unable to get into Windows XP as both ended up with an error. More specifically when following through the recovery the error will appear before XP even attempts to load, but if I quit the recovery the error occurs after XP attempts to load (after the XP logo with the blue "loading" bar screen) .
Futhermore, there are two other partitions on the Partition screen besides the windows one I previously deleated.
1) Partition HP recovery
2)Partition NTFS
Are these both alright?
Also, after attempting to install windows and going back to booting from the cd, I will be asked to repair the one just installed which is listed and called Windows(which does not work) but I've notices that in the following screen listing all the partitions, there is not one that is called Windows, only NTSF in the size I made Windows.
Hopefully I've been descriptive enough in describing my problem as I have no idea what may be wrong and as I'm sure you can tell, am not very computer smart haha.
Thank you very much in advanced, much appreciated
I recently got a very bad virus and ended up having to reformat my HP laptop. I've attempted to do the following
1) Boot from a windows XP cd
2) Delete current partition with Windows on it
3) Continue with windows XP installation
Once compleated the laptop restarts and then goes to something called "HP recovery". I've attempted following the instructions for the recovery and right away quitting the recovery but in both instances I was unable to get into Windows XP as both ended up with an error. More specifically when following through the recovery the error will appear before XP even attempts to load, but if I quit the recovery the error occurs after XP attempts to load (after the XP logo with the blue "loading" bar screen) .
Futhermore, there are two other partitions on the Partition screen besides the windows one I previously deleated.
1) Partition HP recovery
2)Partition NTFS
Are these both alright?
Also, after attempting to install windows and going back to booting from the cd, I will be asked to repair the one just installed which is listed and called Windows(which does not work) but I've notices that in the following screen listing all the partitions, there is not one that is called Windows, only NTSF in the size I made Windows.
Hopefully I've been descriptive enough in describing my problem as I have no idea what may be wrong and as I'm sure you can tell, am not very computer smart haha.
Thank you very much in advanced, much appreciated