ok this is whats going on. first my computer lock up and i had to reboot it. but when it came back up it said it was missing a dll file. so i put xp cd in to reinstall windows, and it could only detect one of my hard drives. see i have a 20gb and a 40 gb hard drive. and it detected the old hd so i started formating it and i relize it was the old hd by the size of it it said 18 and something gb. so i stop the formating. then i rebooted the computer and to make a long story short it stop reading my 40 gb harddrive.
so now what i had decided is that the 40 gb hd is bad. so i am trying to install windows on the old 20 gb hard drive but after windows formats the hd and copys some files it reboots by its self and wants to start all over agian doing the same thing. it will not go all the way though with installing windows. does anyone have any ideals what is going on?
i need to get my computer back up i use it alot
thanks
kf4nod
so now what i had decided is that the 40 gb hd is bad. so i am trying to install windows on the old 20 gb hard drive but after windows formats the hd and copys some files it reboots by its self and wants to start all over agian doing the same thing. it will not go all the way though with installing windows. does anyone have any ideals what is going on?
i need to get my computer back up i use it alot
thanks
kf4nod