Cant Format Pc

[Guest Wolfeymole]

Ok your latest post quite clearly indicates that you are booting from the hard drive irrespective of what you have just written regarding the boot order in the bios.

 

You have to change the boot order and I am really trying to help you here.

[PC4Dummies]

ive even just disabled the diskett drive and the c drive in the set up

 

comes up with strike f1 to try reboot f2 for setup utilitys

[PC4Dummies]

does this help

 

ide drive diagnostics

 

primary ide drive o: wdc wd400bb=75fra0

[Guest Wolfeymole]

What did you do to run a drive diagnostic tool?

[PC4Dummies]

Pressed F12 it shows the boot menu

 

1. normal

2. ide cd-rom

3. system set up

4. ide drive diagnostics

5. boot to utility partition

[Guest Wolfeymole]

So you have not changed the boot menu to cdrom first as the list shows.

 

Please change it to that.

[PC4Dummies]

yes done that by pressing f2 and going into bios f12 brings up this menu

[PC4Dummies]

if i press 3 then it will go to bios press 1 pc trys to start normally etc etc

[RandyL]

Your bios shows that your cd device is set as the second boot device not the first.

[PC4Dummies]

no honest cd is first you choose which one you want in the boot device menu F12 and when i choose no 2 ide cd-rom device same thing happens

[RandyL]

Sorry about that. I misread.

 

OK it seems you have changed the boot order. However it seems that your PC is not finding the CD drive at bootup so it's going to the next device in the list.

 

This can only be one of two things. Either the disk is so bad it can't be read or the cd drive is faulty and can't read the disk.

 

It's most likely the cd drive. I think you need to try a new or different cd drive.

[PC4Dummies]

thanks i will try that