I have a Dimension E510 running XP Media 2005. It crashed. I got CD with XP on it from Dell to reinstall. When I try to reinstall, it looks for previously installed versions. Then it stops and I get a long message with the following 'Technical information:
All I want to do, I think, is reinstall and I don't know how to get beyond this stop.
I ran the Express Test from the Drivers and Utilities CD provided and it passed. I ran the Symptoms Tree from the same CD with the symptom of 'Cannot boot OS'. This presented error messages in the SATA Disk read test with error code 0f00:0244 in some blocks. Also error code 0f00:1a44 in the read test, I believe.
Does any of this make sense and how can I get to reinstall?
If you are attempting to perform a clean installation it is essential that you boot from the CD rather than the hard drive. A step by step procedure given by Dell for its computers can be found here:
If you are not trying to do an "upgrade" installation, you need to use the disk formatting capability to delete the NTFS "C:" partition and then re-create it in the same space. You then format the new partition and tell the installation program to install Windows.
or.. you can do ctrl f11 on beginning screen of Dell logo a few times. don't hold it or keyboard error happens. that wipes it to original in 15 mins if the hardrive has not been replaced yet.
To find and download the drivers for your system, scroll down the page on click on
"Drivers and Downloads". Then enter your Service Tag or model number of your computer.
Select your operating system and then download the drivers that you need.
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Posted May 23rd, 2007 02:00