New to the board and here's my first post I've been trying to format my HD for a few days now and do a clean install. I have the original "Recovery XP" disks that came with it and i also have an unused Liscensed Windows XP cd. Both Cd's have been tested/used before and work & the Drive itself is only a few months old. Even after changing the order in the bios at startup, it still goes straight to the XP loading screen then to desktop. I've done the F8 key and there isn't an option to boot from cd from there and as said before i did change the startup order and thats not working either.
In a nutshell the disks are good, the drive is good but it's not recognizing the startup order in the bios? Just want to format, don't care about the data and any help would be appreciated. I'm usually pretty good at diagnosing the problem through google and fixing it but this one really has me at wits end lol...
In a nutshell the disks are good, the drive is good but it's not recognizing the startup order in the bios? Just want to format, don't care about the data and any help would be appreciated. I'm usually pretty good at diagnosing the problem through google and fixing it but this one really has me at wits end lol...