Cannot install Win XP MCE OEM or Win XP Pro

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I don't miss the F6. It never gets that far. When I installed bothe MCE and
XP Pro on this pc, I saw the F6. It came much sooner than it takes for the
install to fail with the STOP on the new pc.
 
DOS does not work with NTFS. I could not get FDISK to anything but make a
partition active.
 
cact25 said:
DOS does not work with NTFS. I could not get FDISK to anything but
make a partition active.
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Natively - no.
With a third party tool - yes.

FDISK can delete NTFS partitions (NON-DOS I believe they are called.)
The UBCD4WIN I mentioned - works great for doing such things - and since it
is basically Windows XP - you can read/write to everything on the disk (NTFS
that is.)
 
cact25 said:
I don't miss the F6. It never gets that far. When I installed
bothe MCE and XP Pro on this pc, I saw the F6. It came much sooner
than it takes for the install to fail with the STOP on the new pc.
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If you boot with a standard, unmodified Windows XP Professional or Windows
XP Media Center Edition CD and start the installation process - you will get
an F6 prompt as long as the hardware is good/MBR is intact/accessible. If
the hardware is bad (or the other problem) - you may not get it.

Seagate Full Wipe, then try booting from the WIndows XP CD again.
 
cact25 said:
"Daave" wrote:
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DOS does not work with NTFS. I could not get FDISK to anything but
make a partition active.
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Perhaps we're talking about different things. I was under the impression
you and Shenan were discussing Sea Tools for DOS:

http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/SeaToolsDOSguide.pdf

But I see now you didn't respond to the specific post where he mentioned
it. All you need to do is download the .iso file and create a bootable
disk from it. Then configure your BIOS to boot off the CD and you can
check the health of the hard drive (since you're not booting off the
hard drive, it doesn't matter if it's NTFS!). And I think he suggested
you use its full erase function. Another option is DBAN:

http://www.dban.org/

You don't need fdisk. :-)
 
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