Re: Any ideas

what does Bios say about the drive
what does FDISK say about the drive
what windows CD, XP?
What boot disk DOS?,,,won't see the NTFS format

"Dave Cox" <davecox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I've trying to reinstall windows on a friends PC, it reads the windows CD but keeps
saying there is a problem with the registry. So I boot from the windows CD, reinstall or
repair - same thing.

Put a boot disk in, it cant see the C drive (so I can format it)

Anyone any ideas? Serious if possible!!!



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