Help my acer!!!. I have an acer 5630 with a problem: when i boot to a disc to format the computer this is the message i recive: [b]TRAP 0000000D===========GENERAL PROTECTION FAULT============= tr=0028 cr0=00000011 cr2=00000000 cr3=00000000 gdt limit...

to be formatted when giving > it instructions? > thanks for any help, > Bill V. >>> Archived from groups: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell () Well....Edward, we have a problem here.. My son did a format using an ME boot floppy disc...which he says is complete...

boot disc. I have formatted using the same disc. I have partitioned the CDrive once at 33% and once at 10% with the same results. I have replaced the memory and IDE cable to no avail. This also occurs with XP, but 98 loads without a problem. Anywhere...

XP Pro and others say just enable boot from cd-rom and xp will format a new hard drive and do everything else. Do I need to make a boot disc and format or not? I currently have Windows ME, will a boot disc from that work? How? My intended setup is P4 2.4, Asus...

second the Ultimate Boot CD 4 Win , but you should have no problem booting from the Windows Install disk and using its integrated portioning tools to Delete and crate new partitions on the drives, those noling the problem there, make sure that you Full Format...

to boot from the Disc, then format the drive from there. thank you very much Just insert the Windows XP bootable disk and boot using it. Then tell the Windows XP setup to format everything and install Windows XP Make sure you take any backup of personal...

is IDE and another is a sata drive. the sata drive has a partition in which windows xp is installed on. Now its time to format this computer and give it a fresh new start, but then I start the windows set-up from the boot disc it doesnt detect the sata drive....

followed by the hard drive. I followed a friend's suggestion to use the XP disc to format my hard disk so that it is empty, and then try to boot from the Vista disc again... but no luck! Has anyone ever encountered this problem before, or have any ideas...

thing under my username since I gave it to her, I figured I might as well re-format and start over. It's always been a good - and fairly simple - idea in the past. So, the format, partition (from XP CD) install goes fine, and I want to activate,...