Ok, I'm going to try to be concise here without making this too long. I have a HP a6110n Pavillion that I was having trouble with. It would power off when left to hibernate, and repeatedly when trying to reboot. I had the idea that I would just ditch the Pavillion instead of putting any more money or time into it because I have a HP xw4400 workstation sitting here, supposedly in good working order but missing a hard drive.
Since the Pavillion would stay on for several hours once I finally managed to get it up and running, I had planned on formatting the hard drive, putting the hard drive into the 4400 workstation, and doing a fresh install of Windows XP Pro. I started the formatting process and the Pavillion powered off in the middle of the format, and while I could get it to restart, I could not get it to stay powered on long enough to complete the format.
Anyway, I guess I didn't completely think this through and am now a lot less confident that I can pull this off. I haven't had to do a reformat or fresh install or had to work with DOS since I had Windows 95. Can anyone help me with some ideas on how to approach this? Is the fact that the hard drive is only partially formatted going to give me problems or can I just use fdisk once I get the hard drive installed into the 4400? I kind of need a step by step process, as my cold feet have left me not knowing exactly where to start.
