Formatting a Windows boot disk

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Hello,

I am in the process of reinstalling Windows XP.
I partitioned and formatted my disk with ADDH 2011 and activated the partition.
I installed Windows; but when the machine reboots, nothing happens, it stalls. I tried a couple of times with the same result.
Finally, I let the Windows Install process delete, define and format the disk and everything worked OK.
Did I miss an option when using ADDH ?

Thank you.

Rémi

Sat, 08/27/2011 - 13:25
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Did you verify the partition was set Active? If so, it should have worked.

That being said, I recommend that when installing Windows to a DD formatted partition that you use the Windows installer to do a quick format of the partition (it doesn't need to be deleted and recreated). This usually solves these types of problems.

Sat, 08/27/2011 - 15:56
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Yes, the partition was Active.
I tried the procedure several times and I recall that once it gave me a strange error for which I could not identify the code through the this site errorcode engine, but it was saying somthing like "Operating system not found". After that I tried the Windows route and it worked OK.
Sorry, I did not keep the 3 sections error code (about 24 digits).
Rémi

Sun, 08/28/2011 - 03:16