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Earl Bross

Hi Group,

I have recently had a large number of problems with 2 harddrives. Neither of
them lets me use the Windows XP (Home or Pro Edition)CD to get onto my
harddrive and format it completely. My only option available is to
purchase(or rent) a mechanical tool to format them here at home. Can anyone
recommend such a tool. What are they precisely called? I'd love to buy one
for home use.
I'd appreciate any and all help I could get.

Thanks

Earl (Canadian in germany)
 
You are using the CDs incorrectly. You must set the BIOS so
that the CD is the first boot device and then boot the
computer with the CD in the drive.
You can't format the drive which boots the computer.


| Hi Group,
|
| I have recently had a large number of problems with 2
harddrives. Neither of
| them lets me use the Windows XP (Home or Pro Edition)CD to
get onto my
| harddrive and format it completely. My only option
available is to
| purchase(or rent) a mechanical tool to format them here at
home. Can anyone
| recommend such a tool. What are they precisely called? I'd
love to buy one
| for home use.
| I'd appreciate any and all help I could get.
|
| Thanks
|
| Earl (Canadian in germany)
|
|
 
Earl said:
Hi Group,

I have recently had a large number of problems with 2 harddrives. Neither of
them lets me use the Windows XP (Home or Pro Edition)CD to get onto my
harddrive and format it completely. My only option available is to
purchase(or rent) a mechanical tool to format them here at home. Can anyone
recommend such a tool. What are they precisely called? I'd love to buy one
for home use.
I'd appreciate any and all help I could get.

Thanks

Earl (Canadian in germany)
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A servo-writer plus the clean room in which to run it costs megabucks.

You might try a different PC, on the off chance that your MB or CPU
or PS or CDROM or cabling is screwed up. But don't bet the farm on it.

Why not give up on those HDs, and buy some replacements.
 
Hi Jim,
forgive me for not being specific enough. It is the first rule of formatting
and I did it of course.(Changed the bios settings I mean) I took it for
granted not to mention it because it goes without saying. Which is why I am
trying to go the "physical" way in order to format them. Any other
suggestions?

Thanks

Earl
 
Thanks Bob,

I'd love to buy new ones; but these HD that I have now are "BIG" and I
invested too much money into them already.

Earl
 
Describe the procedure you are using to boot and format the
hard drive. You have to begin an installation to get the
options.

If your drives won't format if they are installed as the
boot drive, are you sure the CD booted...did you get the
prompt "press any key to boot from the CD?" Did you press
any key [enter]?

Did you look in the BIOS to see if any write protection was
applied to the hard drives?

You can send the drives to the mfg'r for repair and
low-level format, but the cost would be higher than the cost
to buy new drives.

Are you sure your XP CDs are MS CDS and not some OEM image
restore disk?


| Hi Jim,
| forgive me for not being specific enough. It is the first
rule of formatting
| and I did it of course.(Changed the bios settings I mean)
I took it for
| granted not to mention it because it goes without saying.
Which is why I am
| trying to go the "physical" way in order to format them.
Any other
| suggestions?
|
| Thanks
|
| Earl
|
in message
| | > You are using the CDs incorrectly. You must set the
BIOS so
| > that the CD is the first boot device and then boot the
| > computer with the CD in the drive.
| > You can't format the drive which boots the computer.
| >
| >
| > | > | Hi Group,
| > |
| > | I have recently had a large number of problems with 2
| > harddrives. Neither of
| > | them lets me use the Windows XP (Home or Pro
Edition)CD to
| > get onto my
| > | harddrive and format it completely. My only option
| > available is to
| > | purchase(or rent) a mechanical tool to format them
here at
| > home. Can anyone
| > | recommend such a tool. What are they precisely called?
I'd
| > love to buy one
| > | for home use.
| > | I'd appreciate any and all help I could get.
| > |
| > | Thanks
| > |
| > | Earl (Canadian in germany)
| > |
| > |
| >
| >
|
|
 
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