xp won't start

Dobbin <Dobbin@blueNOSPAMyonder.co.uk>, the cross-eyed-old-fart and
crippled bottomite who likes intrusive encounters with moles, and whose
partner is a ****stress with a ghastly mooch, wrote in
<IKKQh.5625$NK2.1738@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk> :
>I have a pc which had windows 98 installed. I think it also had a
> partition with factory restore information on. I have tried to install
> windows
> xp. I reformatted the hard drive, deleting all previous partitions,
> but when it boots up it says "searching for boot record for ide-0. ok"
> then hangs. I tried fixmbr and also reinstalling several times but with
> the same
> result.
>
>


Corr!


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