Operating system I have formatted my hard drive nd re-installed XP Operating System. After trying to install Microsoft Office and reboot the system will not come back up or re-install Windows XP Operating System. Do I need to replace the Motherboard?

Please post the error code if any. Also, I need the info of the:
1. MS Office version (2013/2010/2007 or older version) and the media (DVD, flash drive),
2. The installed operating system (Windows 8/7/Vista/XP)
3. The remaining hard drive space (the system will display warning if the hard drive space is not enough)

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Hope this helps

You can completely wipe out your system by employing DBAN ( http://www.dban.org/ ) - *CAREFUL*, there is no undoing this format! Backup any important data on an external drive or unit.

Once formatted, you can reinstall your system using any OS CD/DVD (by preference, those which came with the system).

If what you're doing is trying to recover a broken OS, you may try a "recovery install" from the OS CD/DVDs before resorting to a complete format.

Is the hard drive seen in the system bios?Once you upgraded the hard drive did you re-install the operating system.Remember this,,, if the operating system on the drive belonged to another system you will encounter issues when the bios and the new hard drive starts to interact resulting .If you have data on this drive make a back up so you may restore it once the new operating system is installed.
Good luck

try installing on another hard drive...your c drive can be damaged

You can try also to do reformat your hard drive as fresh unallocated one before doing formatting again to install windows. And check your installation disk for scratches.

put in the windows 2000 or xp disk
98 is not supported by microsoft , youll have many problems online
but you need to format the hard drive , 20 gb is good
with the windows xp cd boot from it
you will see just one letter drive if more delete them and format just one drive, you can use the quick format , so the windows xp files will go on after that, but youll have 30 day trial

hi jsollars,
the problem is in ur operating system
simple way format ur hard disk & install ur operating system
2nd way:
1) right click in ur desktop click on properties
2)left click on screen saver
3) left click on power it will show u the power schemes just go to home/office desk
4) setting for home/office desk it will shows :
A) turn of monitor--click never
b) turn of harddisk-click never
c)system stand by- click never
5) press ok ...& see ur syatem will not reboot trust me

make sure your hard disk is error free Try formating the disk with FAT first ,if it doesn't work out the try disk utilities .

You can remove service pack 2 from within add/remove programmes, you will not lose any documents, but you will lose the udated security patches which is not recommended. If you mean you wish to remove XP SP completely, obviously the files and everything you have installed on c drive will be deleted as you can only save docs etc within an operating system, as c: is just a partition on your hard drive the files reside within the operating system. If you are upgrading to another operating system my advice would be to use a dual boot system and install the other operating system on a seperate partition of your drive, but you would have to have a fair knowledge of pc operating system installation processes.