Re: Any ideas

remove the drive and slave it in another machine...no go? the drive is toast

"Dave Cox" <davecox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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what does Bios say about the drive ---- cant see it
what does FDISK say about the drive -- cant fdisk as cannt see c!
what windows CD, XP? --- its XP
What boot disk DOS?,,,won't see the NTFS format --- dos Boot disk cant see anyting Im
stumped




"JAD" <john doe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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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