- Re-Installation of Windows XP
- Posted by J on October 6th, 2005
I completely erased my computer with a reboot cd, I got off the internet. The
last step of the reboot cd said after it formatted: Put in your windows disc,
Type in e:\setup. When I did that, it said that the program could not be run
in DOS mode. does anyone know what that problem may be? Also earlier, I set
up XP on the comuter, I had the option of format the partition using NTFS
file system(quick), Format the partition usiing FAT file system(quick, NTFS
file System, or FAT file sysem, or Convert the partition to NTFS, or leave
the current file system inact. I picked one (I beleave the FAT file.
Everything ran smooth until I took out my disc, and every time I would
restart my computer it would say: No Bootable Device selected. Any idea what
I am doing wrong? Thank you for your help!
- Posted by Pegasus \(MVP\) on October 6th, 2005
"J" <J@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:5EEE2EB5-C952-4EB2-BCED-1BC9F990FD98@microsoft.com...
> I completely erased my computer with a reboot cd, I got off the internet.
The
> last step of the reboot cd said after it formatted: Put in your windows
disc,
> Type in e:\setup. When I did that, it said that the program could not be
run
> in DOS mode. does anyone know what that problem may be? Also earlier, I
set
> up XP on the comuter, I had the option of format the partition using NTFS
> file system(quick), Format the partition usiing FAT file system(quick,
NTFS
> file System, or FAT file sysem, or Convert the partition to NTFS, or leave
> the current file system inact. I picked one (I beleave the FAT file.
> Everything ran smooth until I took out my disc, and every time I would
> restart my computer it would say: No Bootable Device selected. Any idea
what
> I am doing wrong? Thank you for your help!
You need to boot your machine with your WinXP CD, after
instructing the BIOS to use the CD drive as the first boot
device. Everyting else is automatic.
- Posted by Michael Stevens on October 6th, 2005
In news:5EEE2EB5-C952-4EB2-BCED-1BC9F990FD98@microsoft.com,
J <J@discussions.microsoft.com> replied with a ;-)
> I completely erased my computer with a reboot cd, I got off the
> internet. The last step of the reboot cd said after it formatted: Put
> in your windows disc, Type in e:\setup. When I did that, it said that
> the program could not be run in DOS mode. does anyone know what that
> problem may be? Also earlier, I set up XP on the comuter, I had the
> option of format the partition using NTFS file system(quick), Format
> the partition usiing FAT file system(quick, NTFS file System, or FAT
> file sysem, or Convert the partition to NTFS, or leave the current
> file system inact. I picked one (I beleave the FAT file. Everything
> ran smooth until I took out my disc, and every time I would restart
> my computer it would say: No Bootable Device selected. Any idea what
> I am doing wrong? Thank you for your help!
You boot from the CD and do a clean install.
Click on or copy and paste the link below into your web browser address bar.
How to clean install XP.
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html
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