Hardware Analysis Community Forums http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/71130/ 2008-05-17T07:25:08-05:00 http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/71130/ http://media.hardwareanalysis.com/halogo.gif text/html 2008-03-29T23:52:31-05:00 Francis basco http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/71130/?l=1#532403 Actually lol I really did know.. I found out on the way to installing a fresh copy of Win XP. It's the thing that takes about 30 minutes. My badddd text/html 2008-03-29T18:12:09-05:00 Francis basco http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/71130/?l=1#532387 Oh. I never knew you could do that.. I use this site as a reference whenever I format:<br /> <br /> <a target="_blank" href="/action/r/http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/repair_xp.htm">http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/repair_xp.htm</a><br /> <br /> But anyway, I got it to work from that website in the 2nd post to this thread. Thank you for your help people!<br /> <br /> text/html 2008-03-29T06:47:59-05:00 Pogi Bagsik http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/71130/?l=1#532377 Francis basco said: <div class="quote">Hey everyone,<br /> <br /> Right now, I've decided my computer needs a clean slate and I've never ran into this problem before in dealing with formatting my computer, but I have come across this problem when I formatted my friends windows xp.<br /> <br /> When I go to the recovery console, I type in FORMAT C: /FS:FAT32 to do a complete format, but the next line gives me &quot;AUTOFMT.EXE could not be located in either the startup directory or the CDROM drive.&quot;<br /> <br /> I remember fixing this problem, but I forgot how I did it before. Help is appreciated. Thank you.</div>Why not just format in the Windows setup? No need to go to recovery console.<br /> text/html 2008-03-29T01:12:32-05:00 john albrich http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/71130/?l=1#532363 You might also investigate a tool called xxClone<br /> <br /> It has a category called &quot;cool tools&quot; in which one choice is to make a disk bootable and/or repair the MBR...I think by using available MBR data. Not sure my memory is 100% on that, but you might look into it.<br /> <br /> <a target="_blank" href="/action/r/http://www.majorgeeks.com/XXCLONE_d5534.html">http://www.majorgeeks.com/XXCLONE_d5534.html</a><br /> <a target="_blank" href="/action/r/http://www.xxclone.com/index.htm">http://www.xxclone.com/index.htm</a><br /> <a target="_blank" href="/action/r/http://www.xxclone.com/idwnload.htm">http://www.xxclone.com/idwnload.htm</a> text/html 2008-03-28T21:06:34-05:00 Francis basco http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/71130/?l=1#532356 I might've found it on this site<br /> <br /> <a target="_blank" href="/action/r/http://mirror.href.com/thestarman/asm/mbr/WTC.htm">http://mirror.href.com/thestarman/asm/mbr/WTC.htm</a> under<br /> Windows 2000/XP OS Boot Record<br /> First Sector and “Bootstrap” Code<br /> <br /> I will give it a try then reply again text/html 2008-03-28T20:59:23-05:00 Francis basco http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/71130/?l=1#0 Hey everyone,<br /> <br /> Right now, I've decided my computer needs a clean slate and I've never ran into this problem before in dealing with formatting my computer, but I have come across this problem when I formatted my friends windows xp.<br /> <br /> When I go to the recovery console, I type in FORMAT C: /FS:FAT32 to do a complete format, but the next line gives me &quot;AUTOFMT.EXE could not be located in either the startup directory or the CDROM drive.&quot;<br /> <br /> I remember fixing this problem, but I forgot how I did it before. Help is appreciated. Thank you.