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General Category => Software => Topic started by: chris kane on July 11, 2005, 10:07:00 AM

Title: I NEEEEEEEEEED HELP!!
Post by: chris kane on July 11, 2005, 10:07:00 AM

i am just wondering if any body would be able 2 help me as i am exteremely stuck....i have just purchased a new computer without and o/s. So me being the moneysaving type tried to install my uncles version of Windows XP Pro, however it then asked for the key code which we did not know. I now have another disk with the right key code, but when i try 2 install it is says that it 'failed to install the product catalogs' and said it was error '800b0100'...so XP pro is now partly installed, should i format my hard drive and start agen? and how would i do that??

if anyone could plz help i would be gratefull!! many thanks

Title: I NEEEEEEEEEED HELP!!
Post by: i_and_identity on July 16, 2005, 12:01:25 AM

do a format

Title: I NEEEEEEEEEED HELP!!
Post by: SuperiorLightning on July 28, 2005, 07:19:37 PM

lol yes as "i_and_identity" said, format the hard drive, but it sounds like ud have trouble doing that? dont meen to be rude or patronise u or anything of corse, sorry if it came over like that, im a nice guy realy lol

to format ur puter using Xp, boot the computer up with the Xp CD in the drive, then select "boot from CD" when it asks you to choose between the hard drive and the CD. this should take you into windows setup. its prety self explanitary from here on, just you might need to delete partitions. dont worry about this, it jus means that its gona wipe them clean for you, then it will put windows back on it

jus one question, y didnt you buy a mac? lol, as you will see from virtualy all of my other posts, im quite anit-microsoft lol

hope that helped a bit

SL

PS im only a newbie here, not in the computing field! do contact me if u need any more help /smile.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':)\' />