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Solve : OS Installing and Hard Disk Problems? |
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Answer» BASICALLY, my windows xp malfunctioned today when i got home from school. I started it up normally and the login screen froze and hanged. I rebooted and a blue screen appeared listing an error. After searching I saw that the error had to do with boot volumes. After managing to get my computer to boot from a cd i DECIDED to use the windows vista cd i had. I formatted my hard drive and tried to use it to install. An error came up saying Failed to create a new partition on the selected unused space. After reading more I used diskpart to clean my hard disk. It changed the hard disk to Unallocated Space. I tried to create a new partition and it wouldnt create it. Right now I'm doing the diskpart clean all (which i HEARD takes awhile). This all happened after I installed PANDA Global Protection 2009. I read something about partition tables being destroyed and I needed a manufacture cd. Is this the case or is there another solution.You need to boot to the Vista CD to manage PARTITIONS and then install the OS - you cannot start the process from within Windows. Is that what you are doing (it doesn't sound like it).I'm starting from boot. Further Info: Hard Drive is DELL Part# HY281 Computer- Dell Optiplex 755You need to delete you old partition and then create a new one. Follow this order: 1. Delete partitions 2. Create a new partition 3. Format your partitionQuote from: JJ 3000 on August 31, 2009, 04:43:47 PM You need to delete you old partition and then create a new one. Follow this order: I already deleted the partition and windows vista setup will not allow me to create a new one.Where is this Vista CD from ? ?Quote from: patio on August 31, 2009, 05:19:12 PM Where is this Vista CD from ? ? Microsoft? Where else would it be from.what error does it give you... Quote from: BC_Programmer on August 31, 2009, 05:40:51 PM what error does it give you... Failed to create a new partition on the selected unused space. [Error: 0x80042558] Diskpart Clean all has finished and it still says thisFixed. What I did: Diskpart-> Clean then Clean All again, restart, reset boot order to default, then, i was able to install windows again. |
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