well im growing impatient here, I dont know what else to do ive been working on this computer for a long time now, I appreciate all the help u been giving me, I hope you aint getting tired of me,but I just cant get it to format. Im at the point where I dont care if I loose everything I had in the computer, I had a lot of music in there that took me a long time to get, but I dont care no more, I just want to get it to work again, ive tried emachine support, but they said that was a how to question and they charge for those kind of questions. I tried all the sights you posted here for me and I did everything it said, but I still cant get it.
THIS IS WHAT I HAVE BEEN DOING, I put in the recovery disk, windows set up comes up and it says,
to set up windows press enter, then i press enter then it says, set up cannot find the end user licensing agreement. So i skipped that and tried to repair windows xp installation using recovery console, i pressed R
then it said which windows, i pressed 1:c:\windows and then password, I pressed enter, and then the command prompt pops out, c:\windows> and I typed format and it looks like this c:\windows>FORMAT then I get ,THE COMMAND IS NOT RECOGNIZED OR THE PARAMETER IS NOT VALID TYPE HELP FOR A LIST OF COMMANDS, so I typed help and in the list I do find format I am not misspelling it or anything it just wont recognize it, what am i doing wrong? i cant even get it to format, ive tried using support gateway for more info on restoring my system. but i dont see that option of destructive or full restoration on the recovery console. oh and my computer is set up to boot from cd. PPPLLEEAASSE HELP