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    trouble doing fresh install

    Discussion in 'HP' started by cisbrane, Jul 14, 2006.

  1. cisbrane

    cisbrane Notebook Enthusiast

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    hey

    i havea dv2000z and i opted to get teh 10$ disc... and i wanted to do a fresh install...

    so i delted the windows partition and not the hp one or quick play... then i formatted it and then let windows install the files. after the reboot teh HP recovery thing came up and i said ... fine i'll do what u want me to do. then i reboot and i got an MBR error which obviously isn't good. then i tried to install again and when HP Recovery poped up i said quit and i wouldn't let it do it's thing and now i bet a blue screen of death when i boot up. so that wasn't good. now i am trying to use thoose recovery dvd's and see what that will do for me. am i going about this wrong? should i have just dleted the hp partition cause the config windows gui thing never came up i dun think. So right now my dvd's are making the recovery partition. it CLAIMS i don't have it when i DO! arf!

    please help me ~ ~

    thanks

    --cisbrane
     
    cisbrane, Jul 14, 2006
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  2. miner

    miner Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Why do you want to keep the restore partition when you have a clean version of XP. It is just taking space and is not really helpful unless the computer is in stock format. The Blue screens and the errors you got were due to the custom HP MBR which was altered when you re-installed Win XP. Delete both partitions and the Windows installation should be fine, but I dont think Quickplay Directplay will work even if you kept the QP partition though. You could try your luck but I doubt that it will work.
     
    miner, Jul 15, 2006
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