Reinstalling windows issue

[SkippyjonJones]

I’ve got a dell pc at home. All the family use it and have successfully managed to swamp the thing with all sorts of programs. Its running – but badly (some of the profiles do not work – just hang when you access them), anyway I’ve backed up the files I want onto an external hard drive and have decided to reinstall windows xp – I’m even using the disk that came with that pc and a legit version of windows!!

 

So right now it boots from the hard drive – loads up windows with few issues. However when I go to use the disk it starts the reinstall process then tells me that it has failed as it cannot find the hard drive on F:/ (which is where it is).

 

Any ideas how to get around this – it recognizes the drive when it starts on its own ` but not when reinstalling windows.. I’m getting frustrated…

 

 

 

the hammer is ready and I'm gonna reinstall java...

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Edited January 16, 2009 by Mr Kite

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