New Information: Apparently letting the laptop stay off for awhile has helped. I now am able to get to the partitioning prompts. When I was here before, the installation failed to complete on "C" after it had been formatted. Now I'm not sure what to do. any suggestions?
Thanks again, Richard P. On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 6:37 PM, Richard P. <richs...@gmail.com> wrote: > When I set up the boot order to CD first, and put in the CD, I get the > prompt "Press any key to continue" which I do, but then I get the no > operating system error found error. > > I had aborted the set up in mid stream previously, and haven't been > able to get through the process to start the reformat over. > > Richard P. > > On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 6:14 PM, mike <xha...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Why can't you start from CD and just reformat? >> >> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Richard P. <richs...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I've somehow messed up the re-formatting of my laptop hard drive when >>> I was attempting to reinstall Windows XP. Now when I try to boot up >>> with the CD, I get a "No Operating System Found" error. Is there a way >>> to start this process over and salvage the hard drive? >>> >>> Thanks in advance >>> >>> Richard P. >>> >>> Windows XP >>> Dell Laptop >>> >>> >>> *************************************** >>> ** THIS LIST HAS MOVED TO YAHOO ** >>> ** PLEASE JOIN THE DISCUSSION THERE ** >>> ** Info at http://www.cguys.org/ ** >>> *************************************** >>> >> >> >> *************************************** >> ** THIS LIST HAS MOVED TO YAHOO ** >> ** PLEASE JOIN THE DISCUSSION THERE ** >> ** Info at http://www.cguys.org/ ** >> *************************************** >> > *************************************** ** THIS LIST HAS MOVED TO YAHOO ** ** PLEASE JOIN THE DISCUSSION THERE ** ** Info at http://www.cguys.org/ ** ***************************************
