Hi.
My computer is a HP Pavilion dv1000. I don't really know many of the other details on it. It had been working just fine. My daughter was trying to get into delish.com, it wouldn't load, she got upset and shut the lid pretty hard. Then this problem occurred the next time I tried to turn it on. Also, the XP disc I used had never been opened before. The only program that I've added to the computer recently is MSN Works & Money.
I got the message NTDETECT failed. So I tried to repair the system using the XP disc. That didn't take. So I tried just reinstalling the whole thing and it got to about 11% or so and everything after that said it couldn't be installed. It told me to press [Enter] to try again (which didn't work), [Esc] to skip, or F3 to quit. I tried skipping, despite the message that it might not end up loading correctly, but nothing else would install.
I have 3 partitions, #1 doesn't have enough room. I tried installing it on the 2nd partition which, from what I can tell, is where xp is currently loaded. It had the above problem. And the 3rd one is empty but wouldn't let me install on it either.
I'm not even sure what question to ask. Simply "help?" Thanks for any help you can give me.