djtavo03 Posted March 9, 2006 CID Share Posted March 9, 2006 I have a used computer from a friend and im trying to reinstall windows xp on it so i can delete the whole drive and intall a clean widows xp on it... i loaded my windows xp cd into the computer, and i selected i wanted a clean intallation of windows..{delteting evertyhing on the hardrives}, when the computer restarts i go trough the following options : Windows Setup - i pick to to set up windows XP now...so i press Enter - i get to the screen with the option to repair {R} or fresh copy of XP {ESC}....i press ESC - now it tells me to pick where i want to install xp....so i press D to delete the selected partion... i press D ***HERE IS MY PROBLEM***...it tells me that setup is unable to perform the requested operation on the selected partiton. This partition contains temporary setup files that are required to complete the intstallation...to continiue press enter and it takes me back to the previous options.. any help would be appreciated.. thanks.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenpo Posted March 9, 2006 CID Share Posted March 9, 2006 Try to do the partition and format with win 98 or ME start up disk and after that uses win xp cd, maybe that way will delete the temporary setup files. Good luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djtavo03 Posted March 9, 2006 Author CID Share Posted March 9, 2006 i went online and got me a diskboot OEM for 98 ... but i dont know anyhting about commands...is there another way ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djtavo03 Posted March 9, 2006 Author CID Share Posted March 9, 2006 by the way the hardrive is NTFS*************** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan314 Posted March 9, 2006 CID Share Posted March 9, 2006 Try leaving that partition be.. make another partition.. if you have enough hd to do it... also make sure the one your trying to format isnt RAW already Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted March 9, 2006 CID Share Posted March 9, 2006 djtavo03 don't run the istall from with in windows, when you start your computer, put the disk in and let the setup run. without going into windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaKeith Posted March 9, 2006 CID Share Posted March 9, 2006 i would use the 98 startup disk and use the fdisk on the startup and delete the partion that way and when u put ur windows cd back in u should not have any problems from there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghostmaster Posted March 9, 2006 CID Share Posted March 9, 2006 Like Dlewis said...forget all that win 98 boot disk stuff. Put the XP disk in, reboot the computer. You may have to set the BIOS to boot to the CD-ROM drive first. After you do that, when the computer reboots a thing will come up asking if you want to boot to the CD-ROM and it will give you about 4 seconds to it; press any key to boot to cd....after that then complete the setup like normal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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