Okay, I've been having the abslute strangest issues regarding a reformat, and have basicly run out of ideas.
My PC has been slowing down for a while, so I decided to do a reformat. Now, before this, I had my CD/DVD rom drive's power unplugged, because I didn't need it. At this point I plugged it back in, put the Windows (XP) CD inside, and changed the boot priority from HDD to CD to Cd to HDD. Ran windows, so far so good.
Here's where it got strange. Windows did not find a previous version of XP installed on my system (I have an upgrade disk.) Knowing this is crazy, I restarted, and didn't hit the key to boot from CD, so after that timed out, it booted from the HD, and I got an error Missing Or Corrupt Hal.dll.
Now I was a little worried, but thought it was odd that my Hardrive and picked just that moment to fail. Instead I unplugged my CD rom drive, and restarted. Windows booted up fine. Then I replugged my CD drive, and changed the boot priority to HDD-CD. Booted fine again. Then I changed it back to CD-HDD and the error occurred again.
So, it seems like for some reason, whenever it's set to boot for CD, it can't find my Hard drive, and windows. Maybe it's trying to boot windows from the CD? I'm not sure, and at this point, I have no idea.
My PC has been slowing down for a while, so I decided to do a reformat. Now, before this, I had my CD/DVD rom drive's power unplugged, because I didn't need it. At this point I plugged it back in, put the Windows (XP) CD inside, and changed the boot priority from HDD to CD to Cd to HDD. Ran windows, so far so good.
Here's where it got strange. Windows did not find a previous version of XP installed on my system (I have an upgrade disk.) Knowing this is crazy, I restarted, and didn't hit the key to boot from CD, so after that timed out, it booted from the HD, and I got an error Missing Or Corrupt Hal.dll.
Now I was a little worried, but thought it was odd that my Hardrive and picked just that moment to fail. Instead I unplugged my CD rom drive, and restarted. Windows booted up fine. Then I replugged my CD drive, and changed the boot priority to HDD-CD. Booted fine again. Then I changed it back to CD-HDD and the error occurred again.
So, it seems like for some reason, whenever it's set to boot for CD, it can't find my Hard drive, and windows. Maybe it's trying to boot windows from the CD? I'm not sure, and at this point, I have no idea.