constant reboots (every 10 min)

[RB]

formatted the hard drive and did a clean install of
WinXP. System continually reboots. can't format the hard
drive to reload the program. Only program on the system
is WinXP. How can I get rid of it and start over? DOS
gives me the message "format cannot run because volume is
in use by another process." When I try to force the
format is says volume is locked....help!

[Please reply to news group.]

You can't reformat from within XP. You have to reformat from the CD.

RB wrote:

> formatted the hard drive and did a clean install of
> WinXP. System continually reboots. can't format the hard
> drive to reload the program. Only program on the system
> is WinXP. How can I get rid of it and start over? DOS
> gives me the message "format cannot run because volume is
> in use by another process." When I try to force the
> format is says volume is locked....help!

[purplehaz]

*Warning - you will lose all data*

Boot to the xp cd and follow the on-screen instructions. The cd is bootable
and has all the tools to format and install.

Or,

Boot to a win9x floppy boot disk, run Fdisk, delete partitions, create new
partitions, reboot to boot disk again, run format c: (or reboot to xp cd,
format, install xp). Get boot disk here: www.bootdisk.com


Please reply to news group." <"Please reply to news group. wrote:
> You can't reformat from within XP. You have to reformat from the CD.
>
> RB wrote:
>
>> formatted the hard drive and did a clean install of
>> WinXP. System continually reboots. can't format the hard
>> drive to reload the program. Only program on the system
>> is WinXP. How can I get rid of it and start over? DOS
>> gives me the message "format cannot run because volume is
>> in use by another process." When I try to force the
>> format is says volume is locked....help!