Hey hows it going...first time here so be kind aye.
My problem is my laptop came up with "no operating system installed" when ever i tried to boot so i tried reinstalling xp home at the page where it shows the HDD it said unallocated space so i tried to format it - nothing - tried to partition it again nothing went into bios setup to make sure everything is ok and it says my 80g hdd is a 137g ? it recognizes the name and everything but not the size - so i tried to install windows 7 (original) and the same - space not allocated tried to format it and it wont tried to install and it comes up with " Installer Can't Install In Selected Partition - Error: 0x80300024 ".
sorry for the long post...some one please help Thanks
P.S. I have tried several HDD's and all the same unable to install, format or partition within windows installer.
My problem is my laptop came up with "no operating system installed" when ever i tried to boot so i tried reinstalling xp home at the page where it shows the HDD it said unallocated space so i tried to format it - nothing - tried to partition it again nothing went into bios setup to make sure everything is ok and it says my 80g hdd is a 137g ? it recognizes the name and everything but not the size - so i tried to install windows 7 (original) and the same - space not allocated tried to format it and it wont tried to install and it comes up with " Installer Can't Install In Selected Partition - Error: 0x80300024 ".
sorry for the long post...some one please help Thanks
P.S. I have tried several HDD's and all the same unable to install, format or partition within windows installer.
