Computer wont let me reformat.....why??

Frost-Fire

Frost-Fire

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I just rebuilt my computer and got it all working.

I boot from the windows disc and the usual windows setup blue screen comes up and loads all the usual files for a few minutes.

However instead of then giving me the normal menu asking which drive i want to reformat/install windows on it says 'starting windows' and a blue screen of death appears, which it would given that windows wont work until i reformat since i have installed a new mobo etc.

Why is it not allowing me to format? Could the windows install disc be faulty?
Any advice would be appreciated!
 
I guess a better and shorter way to describe this would be to say that instead of going to the welcome to setup screen it attempts to start the dud windows (and predictably fails)
 
Have tried with only 1 hdd, it was even the drive with no OS on it and it still tried 2 start XP instead of giving me the welcome to setup screen
same story with another xp disc as well.... really dont know what 2 do if it isnt goin 2 let me install windows :/
 
None of the HDDs are brand new, they have all been used for some time. I will check my bios options but i have not seen anything out of the ordinary. I cant see why i would need 2 install any 3rd party drivers, i have never needed to before and have used these drives to do a reformat before.
The parts of my rig that i changed were the mobo, CPU, and RAM, everything else was working fine in my old comp.
Any other ideas for bios options that could be causing this?
 
Interesting. That could be the case, but i have to say i have done reformats with these drives before and never had a problem until i changed the mobo.
The comp doesnt have a floppy drive, i havent used them for years :/
 
Honestly didnt think the drivers were the problem.
This is slowly driving me nuts now, i have no options, as far as i can see everything in the bios is setup ok, but i still cant get to the windows steup menu. Without this i cant do anything.
Only thing i can guess is that the windows disc is faulty... altho it has been used b4 with no problems.
Comp remains a useless lump :(
 
One drive is plugged in, its in the first port, the drive is set to IDE, not AHCI or RAID.
It doesnt seem to have any errors, it just doesnt give me welcome to setup.
As far as i can tell everything is just as u hav said zombie.
 
The Blue screen comes after everything when it tries 2 load the dud windows.
I dont get to the screen with repair etc... that is the screen im desperately tryin 2 get 2 lol, it skips it and attempts 2 start windows!!! The BSOD is purely because widows wont work and is not an error during the setup process, its exactly the same error i get if i dont boot off the CD and just try to run the comp. The setup process itself seems 2 do exactly what it should do.... apart from skipping the vital screen.

Will try the RAM just in case, but would imagine a ram problem would manifest itself before it got all the way 2 that point.

Hav cleared CMOS, havent gone all the way back 2 basics, but very close 2.

Hav tried with 2 different disc drives!!
 
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