I broke my windows

AbraAbra Would you kindly Join Date: 2003-08-17 Member: 19870Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">while partitioning stuff.</div>I'm on a borrowed computer so I will type this fast. I tried increasing the size of my C: partition but it ook too long and I canceled it. My D: disappeared but I found it with a 3rd party program. Now after having restarted the computer, explorer.exe and some other important stuff crashes efore anything else loads. I want to format the NTFS partition C: but I can't from the cmd window. (run...cmd) I have read that I can't format NTFS partitions with the format C: command. I have tried using my windows xp professional install CD but it freezes up (or at least takes waaay to long) getting past a black screen (before getting to the real install part) with a line of text saying something along the lines of "the installation program is checking the computers hardware configuration) (this is translated from danish, so it might be written differently in your versions).

Also, this was after installing windows SP3. I don't know if that has anything to do with it.

Thank you guys! (in advance)
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  • lolfighterlolfighter Snark, Dire Join Date: 2003-04-20 Member: 15693Members
    How long have you given the Windows install disc? You should give it at least five minutes, but preferably ten just to be sure. It does take very long to boot iirc.
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  • AbraAbra Would you kindly Join Date: 2003-08-17 Member: 19870Members
    It feels like I gave it like... 10 min. At least.

    I got to symantecs partitionmagic program from windows, just before explore.exe crashed. I formatted C:. The problem is still that I can't seem to get to the installation over the CD.

    I will let it be, give it an hour to be sure. Then I will sound he alarms...

    Further help is gladly appreciated.
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  • AbraAbra Would you kindly Join Date: 2003-08-17 Member: 19870Members
    20 min of checking... still the same lline...
    <img src="http://www.spywareinfo.dk/manualer/billeder/xpinstallation01.gif" border="0" class="linked-image" />
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  • DrfuzzyDrfuzzy FEW... MORE.... INCHES... Join Date: 2003-09-21 Member: 21094Members
    edited September 2008
    I'm pissed, i just got home and my windows is blue screening on boot. Lost all my ######: dev files, pictures, movies, music <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad-fix.gif" />

    downloading fedora 9 now :3

    /e oh my god what a way to make a bad night worse, i dont have any DVD's and no money to buy more with :cry:

    hopefully i can get my instructor to give me one tomorrow :x
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  • AbraAbra Would you kindly Join Date: 2003-08-17 Member: 19870Members
    I bought a new HD.

    I installed windows on it, and with it followed Service Pack 1.

    I can't install directx 9, so i'm stuck with 8.1. - this has something to do with the installer not finding a windows signiture or something.

    I can't play warhammer online because whenever I start it, It loops the auto patcher with 5 secound intervals.


    I am so freaking angry.
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  • ThansalThansal The New Scum Join Date: 2002-08-22 Member: 1215Members, Constellation
    How legal is your windows install?

    If it is XP have you reached the activation limit? (DID you activate it?)
    <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/piracy/mpa.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.microsoft.com/piracy/mpa.aspx</a>
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  • XythXyth Avatar Join Date: 2003-11-04 Member: 22312Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1688478:date=Sep 20 2008, 12:15 AM:name=Drfuzzy)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Drfuzzy @ Sep 20 2008, 12:15 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1688478"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->I'm pissed, i just got home and my windows is blue screening on boot. Lost all my ######: dev files, pictures, movies, music <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad-fix.gif" />


    hopefully i can get my instructor to give me one tomorrow :x<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Put old hard drive in USB enclosure -> Retreive files?
    Enclosures cost like nothing as well.
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  • AbraAbra Would you kindly Join Date: 2003-08-17 Member: 19870Members
    My XP professional is legal as a woman in her fourties, I bought it with the computer years ago.

    I gave the sucker a spin of the ol' formatting again and now I can install the various things. I have yet to see if my warhammer "mythic patcher" still will loophole itself, or if that wrenched itself aswell.
    '
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  • AbraAbra Would you kindly Join Date: 2003-08-17 Member: 19870Members
    <i><!--sizeo:6--><span style="font-size:24pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo-->Fixed it!!<!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--></i>

    estimated time: 24 hours minus food-in-face break.
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