Urgent help needed

jongeeone

jongeeone

jongeeone

Associate
Joined
6 Apr 2004
Posts
1,829
Location
Bath, UK
My computer needed a format, so i decided to format and reinstall winblows xp this afternoon. Got to the part where you need to select language settings and what not... then the window decided to 'Not Respond' - i left it for a while to see if it could find its legs again but no luck. So i had to reboot... everytime it goes "boot from cd/dvd" it then dosn't go.. press any key to boot from CD - just tried to pick up from where it left off. But this isn't working as it says it can't find the 'asms' file on the CD.

So i need to just do a fresh format - but its not letting me!

Any ideas/help?

Cheers
 
jongeeone said:
My computer needed a format, so i decided to format and reinstall winblows xp this afternoon. Got to the part where you need to select language settings and what not... then the window decided to 'Not Respond' - i left it for a while to see if it could find its legs again but no luck. So i had to reboot... everytime it goes "boot from cd/dvd" it then dosn't go.. press any key to boot from CD - just tried to pick up from where it left off. But this isn't working as it says it can't find the 'asms' file on the CD.

So i need to just do a fresh format - but its not letting me!

Any ideas/help?

Cheers
Click to expand...


Been there before and the advise I was given sounded weird, but it was indeed the PSU was dying (customers Rig).

PSU could not handle the extra strain of the HDD and Rom drive going full pelt to get Windows installed.

Once installed using a spare PSU, it was able to run on his own PSU till replacement arrived.

I had swapped Media/Rom Drives/ Ram/ tried all sorts and was really stuck.
 
Errrr that sounds very odd :|

What if... i pplug the windows HDD into this machine, just so it picks it up - and format it that way when in windows?

Although, i hate the sound of this idea
 
Yea i have put them back to default now..

Things are looking up - Took my daughters HDD out of her pc ¬_¬ took mine out except my windows one - told my bios to boot from hers... now im going to format my windows hdd in windows

*edit*

In windows now on her hd now.. just dont have mouse/keyboard :(
 
Last edited:
Ok, all im getting now is NTDLR file is missing.. seen this a lot but i usueally just change the boot order. But its how its suposed to be - Just Windows isn't there! grrr

About to give up and just put a hammer to it.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom