• Log InLog In
  • Register
Liquid`
Team Liquid Liquipedia
EDT 00:59
CEST 06:59
KST 13:59
  • Home
  • Forum
  • Calendar
  • Streams
  • Liquipedia
  • Features
  • Store
  • EPT
  • TL+
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Smash
  • Heroes
  • Counter-Strike
  • Overwatch
  • Liquibet
  • Fantasy StarCraft
  • TLPD
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Blogs
Forum Sidebar
Events/Features
News
Featured News
Team TLMC #5 - Finalists & Open Tournaments0[ASL20] Ro16 Preview Pt2: Turbulence10Classic Games #3: Rogue vs Serral at BlizzCon9[ASL20] Ro16 Preview Pt1: Ascent10Maestros of the Game: Week 1/Play-in Preview12
Community News
Weekly Cups (Sept 8-14): herO & MaxPax split cups4WardiTV TL Team Map Contest #5 Tournaments1SC4ALL $6,000 Open LAN in Philadelphia8Weekly Cups (Sept 1-7): MaxPax rebounds & Clem saga continues29LiuLi Cup - September 2025 Tournaments3
StarCraft 2
General
#1: Maru - Greatest Players of All Time Weekly Cups (Sept 8-14): herO & MaxPax split cups Team Liquid Map Contest #21 - Presented by Monster Energy SpeCial on The Tasteless Podcast Team TLMC #5 - Finalists & Open Tournaments
Tourneys
Maestros of The Game—$20k event w/ live finals in Paris SC4ALL $6,000 Open LAN in Philadelphia Sparkling Tuna Cup - Weekly Open Tournament WardiTV TL Team Map Contest #5 Tournaments RSL: Revival, a new crowdfunded tournament series
Strategy
Custom Maps
External Content
Mutation # 491 Night Drive Mutation # 490 Masters of Midnight Mutation # 489 Bannable Offense Mutation # 488 What Goes Around
Brood War
General
[ASL20] Ro16 Preview Pt2: Turbulence BW General Discussion ASL20 General Discussion Diplomacy, Cosmonarchy Edition BGH Auto Balance -> http://bghmmr.eu/
Tourneys
[ASL20] Ro16 Group D [ASL20] Ro16 Group C [Megathread] Daily Proleagues SC4ALL $1,500 Open Bracket LAN
Strategy
Simple Questions, Simple Answers Muta micro map competition Fighting Spirit mining rates [G] Mineral Boosting
Other Games
General Games
Path of Exile Stormgate/Frost Giant Megathread General RTS Discussion Thread Nintendo Switch Thread Borderlands 3
Dota 2
Official 'what is Dota anymore' discussion LiquidDota to reintegrate into TL.net
League of Legends
Heroes of the Storm
Simple Questions, Simple Answers Heroes of the Storm 2.0
Hearthstone
Heroes of StarCraft mini-set
TL Mafia
TL Mafia Community Thread
Community
General
US Politics Mega-thread Things Aren’t Peaceful in Palestine Canadian Politics Mega-thread Russo-Ukrainian War Thread The Big Programming Thread
Fan Clubs
The Happy Fan Club!
Media & Entertainment
Movie Discussion! [Manga] One Piece Anime Discussion Thread
Sports
2024 - 2026 Football Thread Formula 1 Discussion MLB/Baseball 2023
World Cup 2022
Tech Support
Linksys AE2500 USB WIFI keeps disconnecting Computer Build, Upgrade & Buying Resource Thread High temperatures on bridge(s)
TL Community
BarCraft in Tokyo Japan for ASL Season5 Final The Automated Ban List
Blogs
The Personality of a Spender…
TrAiDoS
A very expensive lesson on ma…
Garnet
hello world
radishsoup
Lemme tell you a thing o…
JoinTheRain
RTS Design in Hypercoven
a11
Evil Gacha Games and the…
ffswowsucks
Customize Sidebar...

Website Feedback

Closed Threads



Active: 1172 users

Trying to reinstall windows

Blogs > XDawn
Post a Reply
XDawn
Profile Blog Joined February 2004
Canada4040 Posts
December 19 2008 18:47 GMT
#1
I'm trying to reinstall my Windows XP on my old laptop.
It got all virusy and stuff so I'm trying to format it and whatnot but I don't have the format recovery CD (rather never got it when I bought it).

So 1. I found this other XP CD that I used on my desktop. But when I put it into my laptop and tried to run it, it said that the CD is an older version of XP so it wouldn't let me continue.

2. I somehow find a method to format without the XP CD? I don't know if it's even possible but I'm willing to go through the whole possible crapload of procedures that I may have to go through

I may need some help here.

*
Use it or lose it
Durak
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
Canada3684 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-12-19 18:50:25
December 19 2008 18:49 GMT
#2
You don't pop the XP cd in your drive while the computer is on and try and reformat. You put the CD in, restart the computer, go into BIOS and switch your CD drive to the top of the boot list, then save and exit. Your comp will then boot into the cd and you can delete the partition with windows on it and then remake/reinstall XP.

Edit: Alternatively, you can reformat your hard drive if you have another hard drive in your computer that you can boot off of. You just open up my computer and right click - format.
XDawn
Profile Blog Joined February 2004
Canada4040 Posts
December 19 2008 18:58 GMT
#3
Ok well I got that going but the fucking blue screen always seems to come up -.-a
Use it or lose it
Durak
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
Canada3684 Posts
December 19 2008 19:05 GMT
#4
What blue screen comes up and what are you doing?
XDawn
Profile Blog Joined February 2004
Canada4040 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-12-19 19:12:34
December 19 2008 19:06 GMT
#5
I did what you said
Boot from CD when I restart - and so the CD starts loading up all the essentials and after like 3 minutes into loading off from the CD (not at the install part yet) a blue screen comes up


"A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.

If this is the first time you've seen this stop serror screen, restart your computer. If this screen appears again, follow these steps:
Check to be sure you have adequete disk space. if a driver is identified in the Stop message, disable the driver or check with the manufacturer for driver updates. Try changing the video adapters.
Check with your hardware vendor for any BIOS updates. Disable BIOS memory options such as caching or shadowing. If you need to use Safe Mode to remove or disable components, Restart your computer. Press F8 to select advanced startup options, and then select safe mode.

Technical Information:

*** STOP: 0x0000007E (0xC0000005, 0xF76130BF, 0xF7a5F208, 0xF7a5EF08)
*** pci.sys - Address F76130BF base at F760C000, Datestamp 3b7d855C





I have no idea what all this means. lol
Use it or lose it
Ziph
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Netherlands970 Posts
December 19 2008 19:08 GMT
#6
allot of laptops have a recovery part on there harddisk instead of a disk cause most people lose that shit '-.- you can activate it by pressing some key combination on your keyboard when its boating.

not all laptops tho depends of the company you bought your laptop from.
Starcraft 2 - Beta
Durak
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
Canada3684 Posts
December 19 2008 19:08 GMT
#7
On December 20 2008 04:06 XDawn wrote:
I did what you said
Boot from CD when I restart - and so the CD starts loading up all the essentials and after like 3 minutes into loading off from the CD (not at the install part yet) a blue screen comes up


The screen is blue while it loads the files necessary, for a couple minutes. If you're talking about a BSOD then I don't know what's wrong.
iceburn
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States303 Posts
December 19 2008 19:12 GMT
#8
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=n0cop_am1WM

that should help you out
XDawn
Profile Blog Joined February 2004
Canada4040 Posts
December 19 2008 19:12 GMT
#9
Check 3rd post
Use it or lose it
IzzyCraft
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States4487 Posts
December 19 2008 19:14 GMT
#10
On December 20 2008 04:08 Durak wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 20 2008 04:06 XDawn wrote:
I did what you said
Boot from CD when I restart - and so the CD starts loading up all the essentials and after like 3 minutes into loading off from the CD (not at the install part yet) a blue screen comes up


The screen is blue while it loads the files necessary, for a couple minutes. If you're talking about a BSOD then I don't know what's wrong.

True no way for it to bsod on cdboot unless it was hardware failure like memory leaks.
I have ass for brains so,
even when I shit I'm droping knowledge.
iheartgna
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States184 Posts
December 19 2008 19:36 GMT
#11
If you want, try DBAN (Darik's boot and Nuke), here: http://www.dban.org/

This will remove everything from you hard drive and then you can proceed to reinstalling your OS and other applications.
Hell is other people.
Raithed
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
China7078 Posts
December 19 2008 19:54 GMT
#12
On December 20 2008 04:08 Ziph wrote:
allot of laptops have a recovery part on there harddisk instead of a disk cause most people lose that shit '-.- you can activate it by pressing some key combination on your keyboard when its boating.

not all laptops tho depends of the company you bought your laptop from.

the newer ones(uh, 2yrs ago and so on) have the recovery partitioned in the HDD. the older ones are a bitch, i have had trouble formatting with an old laptop like the issue you had minus the blue screen(OP), i havent tested but duraks solution actually can work.
XDawn
Profile Blog Joined February 2004
Canada4040 Posts
December 19 2008 21:16 GMT
#13
I see... could someone run me a small guide on how to use DBAN?
I'm not sure which one to download and how to go about it
I'm a total newb when it comes to specific in-depth software/working
Use it or lose it
iheartgna
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States184 Posts
December 19 2008 21:43 GMT
#14
I'll try to write out a guide for you later, but your going to most likely need the DBAN iso, unless your going to boot from a floppy. Burn the iso to a a disc and follow the same instructions as you did earlier and manipulate the bios to make sure dban starts up first when you restart. The dialogs following will be self-explanatory. Afterwards, when you try to reformat you should be left with only unpartitioned space.
Hell is other people.
drone
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
70 Posts
December 20 2008 00:35 GMT
#15
This happened to me in the past, so I used setup disks (floppy's). Just find out what your XP cd's version is (home/professional, service pack), go to this page, and click on the appropriate download link.
마재윤
XDawn
Profile Blog Joined February 2004
Canada4040 Posts
December 20 2008 01:14 GMT
#16
On December 20 2008 06:43 iheartgna wrote:
I'll try to write out a guide for you later, but your going to most likely need the DBAN iso, unless your going to boot from a floppy. Burn the iso to a a disc and follow the same instructions as you did earlier and manipulate the bios to make sure dban starts up first when you restart. The dialogs following will be self-explanatory. Afterwards, when you try to reformat you should be left with only unpartitioned space.



Thanks that would be much appreciated. ASAP if you could possibly.

and Floppy is not an option since it's a laptop so;
Use it or lose it
Please log in or register to reply.
Live Events Refresh
PiGosaur Monday
00:00
#49
Liquipedia
OSC
23:00
OSC Elite Rising Star #16
Liquipedia
[ Submit Event ]
Live Streams
Refresh
StarCraft 2
WinterStarcraft519
StarCraft: Brood War
Leta 571
Noble 54
ajuk12(nOOB) 41
Icarus 9
Dota 2
NeuroSwarm138
Counter-Strike
Stewie2K448
semphis_45
Super Smash Bros
Mew2King37
Other Games
summit1g5047
C9.Mang0302
XaKoH 152
ViBE145
SortOf48
Trikslyr34
Organizations
Other Games
gamesdonequick705
StarCraft 2
Blizzard YouTube
StarCraft: Brood War
BSLTrovo
sctven
[ Show 15 non-featured ]
StarCraft 2
• OhrlRock 98
• intothetv
• AfreecaTV YouTube
• Kozan
• IndyKCrew
• LaughNgamezSOOP
• Migwel
• sooper7s
StarCraft: Brood War
• BSLYoutube
• STPLYoutube
• ZZZeroYoutube
League of Legends
• Rush1138
• Lourlo996
• Stunt420
Other Games
• Scarra1197
Upcoming Events
LiuLi Cup
6h 1m
OSC
14h 1m
RSL Revival
1d 5h
Maru vs Reynor
Cure vs TriGGeR
The PondCast
1d 8h
RSL Revival
2 days
Zoun vs Classic
Korean StarCraft League
2 days
BSL Open LAN 2025 - War…
3 days
RSL Revival
3 days
BSL Open LAN 2025 - War…
4 days
RSL Revival
4 days
[ Show More ]
Online Event
4 days
Wardi Open
5 days
Sparkling Tuna Cup
6 days
Liquipedia Results

Completed

Proleague 2025-09-10
Chzzk MurlocKing SC1 vs SC2 Cup #2
HCC Europe

Ongoing

BSL 20 Team Wars
KCM Race Survival 2025 Season 3
BSL 21 Points
ASL Season 20
CSL 2025 AUTUMN (S18)
LASL Season 20
RSL Revival: Season 2
Maestros of the Game
FISSURE Playground #2
BLAST Open Fall 2025
BLAST Open Fall Qual
Esports World Cup 2025
BLAST Bounty Fall 2025
BLAST Bounty Fall Qual
IEM Cologne 2025
FISSURE Playground #1

Upcoming

2025 Chongqing Offline CUP
BSL World Championship of Poland 2025
IPSL Winter 2025-26
BSL Season 21
SC4ALL: Brood War
BSL 21 Team A
Stellar Fest
SC4ALL: StarCraft II
EC S1
ESL Impact League Season 8
SL Budapest Major 2025
BLAST Rivals Fall 2025
IEM Chengdu 2025
PGL Masters Bucharest 2025
MESA Nomadic Masters Fall
Thunderpick World Champ.
CS Asia Championships 2025
ESL Pro League S22
StarSeries Fall 2025
TLPD

1. ByuN
2. TY
3. Dark
4. Solar
5. Stats
6. Nerchio
7. sOs
8. soO
9. INnoVation
10. Elazer
1. Rain
2. Flash
3. EffOrt
4. Last
5. Bisu
6. Soulkey
7. Mini
8. Sharp
Sidebar Settings...

Advertising | Privacy Policy | Terms Of Use | Contact Us

Original banner artwork: Jim Warren
The contents of this webpage are copyright © 2025 TLnet. All Rights Reserved.