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reformat issues

when I start to reformat, everything is normal..
I enter my product key etc, then it restarts..

But at the restart it gives me 2 choices.. to load on window XP home edition, or to load window xp set up.

the problem is when I load the window XP set up, it goes black, with a gray dash blinking on the top left.

I tried booting from CD, but it takes me to the 2 choices..

any suggestions?

thanks

after you reformat remove the windows disk and load windows xp home edition

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after it re formats and does the initial setup with the blue screen keep the disk in but don't boot from the disk.

the thing is, i cant even reformat without getting past this.

when i load the disk, the set up with the blue screen does load. I believe step 1 is collecting information, and it does..

But after that, it has to go through a reboot before I continue with the reformat, and thats when it asks me about the 2 choices..

I pick load the XP set up, and it goes black after that.

it might be this new virus going around "Antivirus XP 2008."

i cant even unregister the dll's, etc that it operates on..

all the spyware removal programs I was told to download cannot be downloaded, the "anti virus XP 2008" is making the files corrupted, and i cant install them..

and as explained before, I can't reformat either.. =/

any help would be appreciative..

thanks!

buy your installation cd.

teach me stuff, please.

You can reformat..

Just boot it into command prompt instead..
You have to press like CTRL or something when its booting.

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Double post whoops..

Why isn't there a delete post button -.-

This comment was edited at 09/01/2008 9:03 PM

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actually spyware doctor owns that thing. just make sure to boot in safe mode before running your scan.

he fights for us

um I had that before. I used linux to format the hard drive then tried again

1-10 How mad? ♥ Get. Off. My. Cloud.

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lol yea #6 i got that virus last week. i had the same problem ur having when i was reformatting. its easy to fix. when ur rebooting press f1 then go to "boot", then go to "boot priority" or something like that. for the 1st boot device select ur dvd drive. then put ur hard drive 2nd. should solve ur problems :]

lol wow. how about stop choosing windows set up and choose to load windows xp at that screen. i also had a similiar problem and had to make a bootable usb drive and everything was koscher after that

DO YOU GET THE PIBKAC ERROR OR IS IT SOMETHING ELSE?

#14 because loading windows XP just brings my old computer settings, rather than SETTING UP windows XP.. how about you read carefully next time.

#10 i cant install spyware doctor.. the virus makes it corrupted, any way around it?

i had to format coz of that too it fuuckin popped up when i was running housecall so i thought it could be legit and got fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucked.

uhm, i don't get it... when you try to boot from the cd do you get the "press any key to boot from cd" message?

you obviously are not formatting properly if it still boots to your old win. first boot to cd. after the blue screen crap where it loads the drivers it will say something like recover install or new install. pick new install. after that it will show your hd available free space and a list of partitions at the bottom. YOU NEED TO DELETE ALL THOSE PARTITIONS BEFORE CHOOSING TO INSTALL+FORMAT. after the format let the hd boot and it will finish the setup.

like i said, i CANT reformat

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