Hello, i am new here, and I need some help. My sister has not been very wise with her computer, which has led to it being almost completely destroyed, in my opinion. Every single time she tries to start it up, she gets an error message,
"This program has performed an illegal operation and will now close"
or something like that, i forget the exact wording.
I have tried to fix it, tried running it in safe mode, tried a clean install of the OS, which didn't run for some reason, even though I reconfigured the startup to run only off the cd, and now, I've taken her hard drive out, and plugged it into my pc, with the intention of formatting the hard drive and reinstalling windows from my pc. Every time i plug both my HD and her HD in together, the pc crashes after trying (and failing) to detect the hard drives.
If I plug her HD in by itself, I get the same problem as she had on her PC, namely, explorer.exe crashes after causing an illegal operation. Soooooo, my question is, is it possible to format the hard drive without actually starting Windows? Or, is there anything else I can do at all? I can't provide a Hijackthis log because, like I said, there's no way to startup my pc if her HD is plugged in.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Tysonne
"This program has performed an illegal operation and will now close"
or something like that, i forget the exact wording.
I have tried to fix it, tried running it in safe mode, tried a clean install of the OS, which didn't run for some reason, even though I reconfigured the startup to run only off the cd, and now, I've taken her hard drive out, and plugged it into my pc, with the intention of formatting the hard drive and reinstalling windows from my pc. Every time i plug both my HD and her HD in together, the pc crashes after trying (and failing) to detect the hard drives.
If I plug her HD in by itself, I get the same problem as she had on her PC, namely, explorer.exe crashes after causing an illegal operation. Soooooo, my question is, is it possible to format the hard drive without actually starting Windows? Or, is there anything else I can do at all? I can't provide a Hijackthis log because, like I said, there's no way to startup my pc if her HD is plugged in.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Tysonne