Computer Hope
Microsoft => Microsoft Windows => Windows XP => Topic started by: CreepersNemisis on December 18, 2012, 01:26:09 PM
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I recently got a used laptop with ubuntu on it, I used the windows XP Home Edition cd to reformat the drive and attempted to install windows, it got past the first stage fine, (reformat, copy files) but then it waned to restart, as expected, and did so. When it came back up, it started the whole installation over again. If I make it boot from it's own hard drive, it just shows the (computer, not os) logo screen, blanks out and restarts again, and repeats until I shut it down. Since then I've done quite a bit of searching the internet, and I tried a few things like using the fixboot command and adding the os to the boot.ini, and deleting he boot.ini, but so far nothing has worked. I've just reformatted the drive again, and did a fresh reinstall until the point where it will not proceed past just so I can try whatever you guys suggest =)
Please help, thanks in advance!
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Solved!
I had to unpartition the drive during the installation! Thanks guys!
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"un-partition" ? ?