Mark Breen
marklbreen at gmail.com
Fri Oct 30 20:53:38 CDT 2009
Hello Tina, first thing it so ensure that you have some drivers for your network card. If you cannot get on the net to pull down the drivers you need after you re-install, you are stuck even before you can get going. Second thing is that if you are installed Vista or later, it will be easier thatn XP / Win2k3 or earlier. These older OS's look for a SATA driver, Vista, and presumably W7 and Wk28 seem to boot without needing to preload a SATA driver. Once you get the machine booting from your CD and you have a driver for the network card, you just follow the steps. By the time you have it finished, and windows patched, and perhaps office installed, you will have eaten at least eight hours. Let us know if you do it in less :) There are utils out there to scan the drive, if it is really faulty, you could do the 8 hours and then it will fail again! Good Luck and enjoy, try to do it with Vista if you can, it will avoid the inital DOS screen and the "Press F8 to load hard Disk Driver" Mark 2009/10/31 Tina Norris Fields <tinanfields at torchlake.com> > Hi, > > Please hold my hand while I do this for the first time. I've been given > a used Win XP machine, with a 60GB hard drive that is failing. I would > like to reformat this hard drive and reinstall the operating system and > see if I can get some good out of the machine - for teaching kids and > others, and for playing around; this is not a production machine for > me. Before I dive into this for the first time, I would like a little > guidance. Okay? I'm listening. > > Thanks, > T > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >