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« Reply #45 on: August 10, 2005, 06:22:10 PM »
Quote from: 6arett on August 10, 2005, 05:13:03 PM
pitbull, it sounds like your winxp cd is faulty and/or scratched and you cant see it. trust me, 1 scratch on that cd can mess everything up.

my disk is not scratched. i put in the same disk in 2 different pc's and it went through (finish 100%). i also put in the dell's xp disk and it stopped at 77%. like i said before my gatway is the one with my problem. not my disk, hdd, etc.
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« Reply #46 on: August 11, 2005, 05:06:50 PM »
Not sure anyone has suggested this but if you go to the disk manufacturers website you might find a bootable format and setup disk for your hard drive.  With this, you could just boot from floppy and may be able to avoid the whole xp boot/format issue altogether.   

Also, if no one has suggested it, try partitioning and formatting the drive with your other machine (as ntfs) and then re-install into your gateway then do a strait install without formatting at all with your gateway. 

You could also try formatting the drive as fat32 instead of ntfs, just to see if it will format the whole drive. 
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« Reply #47 on: August 11, 2005, 05:32:09 PM »
Dump the Gateway.  You've confirmed it isn't the source media or target hard drives. Gateways are good for target practice.  Twisted Evil
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« Reply #48 on: August 11, 2005, 10:17:36 PM »
Check and see if bios recognizes your hard drives, maybe a motherboard problem, Try memory from other machine, or one bank at a time in different banks. Ive seen bad memory do some weird S#!t to computers.
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« Reply #49 on: August 11, 2005, 10:20:24 PM »
check and try different ide data ribbons
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« Reply #50 on: August 12, 2005, 07:54:00 AM »
i got tired of messing around with it. took our hdd, both my dvd player (1 dvd burner), and ram. and installed them to my dell. damn my dell is fast now  Very Happy

i'll try to see if i can fix my gateway later in the future. damn gateway  angry5
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« Reply #51 on: August 26, 2005, 07:52:50 AM »
another problem

i reformat my dell. everthing is good. problem is now when i restart pc it shows (pick windows you want to use)  :whaa: i deleted the partition. clean everything out. when i insert operation disk back (winxp) now it show:

unpartition  1000mb
partition     winxp (using now)
unpartition  70 somthing gigs


how can i delete the other unpartion (unpartition  1000mb). cause it still has files that i thought i delete?
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« Reply #52 on: August 26, 2005, 11:41:53 AM »
If you have an option when booting up to select which OS to boot into, after your logged on with the correct OS; right click my computer>properties>advanced tab>click on settings, start up and recovery>under system startup, click on the edit tab (windows notepad opens up) and carefully delete the OS that shows up during boot that is no longer installed on your PC. Then click save as and wala.

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P.S. Q? How do I post an image in here from my PC without remote loading, thankx.
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« Reply #53 on: August 26, 2005, 11:46:04 AM »
Quote from: TheHalf™ on August 26, 2005, 11:41:53 AM
If you have an option when booting up to select which OS to boot into, after your logged on with the correct OS; right click my computer>properties>advanced tab>click on settings, start up and recovery>under system startup, click on the edit tab (windows notepad opens up) and carefully delete the OS that shows up during boot that is no longer installed on your PC. Then click save as and wala.

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P.S. Q? How do I post an image in here from my PC without remote loading, thankx.

I think he want's to delete the files on the partition in addition to removing it from showing up when he starts the PC. If he only edits the Boot.ini file, that will just remove the other OS's from showing up. The files will still be there.
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« Reply #54 on: August 26, 2005, 11:53:24 AM »
Deleting the files from one partition while booted on another partition (with XP) is quite simple:

right click my computer>manage>double click storage>double click disk management and choose the partition you want to delete or reformat.

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« Reply #55 on: September 21, 2005, 08:58:35 AM »
Quote from: pitbull481 on August 05, 2005, 07:40:52 PM
i am having trouble.when i have formatted before i never had trouble. but today (right now) when formating. it cant never pass 77% (files saving to computer). why is it doing this?


now im having another problem. same computer (gateway). it actually finish 100%. now it says it doesnt read the hdd i am trying to put it format to. i checked the pins (master, slave. ect.) i have it set at master. one of my friend says it might be the motherboard battery. to by a battery. i reset the motherboard and still does the same thing.
does anyone knows the problem? Sad
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« Reply #56 on: September 21, 2005, 05:57:07 PM »
Quote from: pitbull481 on September 21, 2005, 08:58:35 AM

now im having another problem. same computer (gateway). it actually finish 100%. now it says it doesnt read the hdd i am trying to put it format to. i checked the pins (master, slave. ect.) i have it set at master. one of my friend says it might be the motherboard battery. to by a battery. i reset the motherboard and still does the same thing.
does anyone knows the problem? Sad

Is this the same HD you took out of the Gateway?  If it is, I'd suggest going to Staples and buying a new one and beating the old one to death.Smile  You may have carried the problem with you from the Gateway..........
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« Reply #57 on: September 21, 2005, 06:00:09 PM »
one thing you can try, which may fry the drive as well, is low level formatting it if the bios offers that option.
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