format hard drive

Hi people

i am trying to format the hard drive and to installal micorsoft xp
proffession i put the cd in and boot it with the cd before it gives me the
option to format i get a blue screen with the following error

stop c0000221 unknown hard error \systemroot\system32\ntdll.dll

could anyone hel please

regards
Saeed

If this a clean install, ie you deleted any partitions first, then likely
its a hardware problem
Hard disk, maybe memory

If you are getting that error you are not booting to the CD-ROM, you are
booting to the hard disk. Go in the BIOS and change the boot order so
that the computer boots to the cd before the hard disk.

John

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1 4th May 17:47 saeed External User Posts: 1	format hard drive Hi people i am trying to format the hard drive and to installal micorsoft xp proffession i put the cd in and boot it with the cd before it gives me the option to format i get a blue screen with the following error stop c0000221 unknown hard error \systemroot\system32\ntdll.dll could anyone hel please regards Saeed

2 4th May 17:48 dl External User Posts: 1	format hard drive If this a clean install, ie you deleted any partitions first, then likely its a hardware problem Hard disk, maybe memory

3 4th May 17:48 john john External User Posts: 1	format hard drive If you are getting that error you are not booting to the CD-ROM, you are booting to the hard disk. Go in the BIOS and change the boot order so that the computer boots to the cd before the hard disk. John