need help reformating

[lazarus]

my roommate got some serious viruses

and wants to reformat

i went to the bios and made the cd drive 1st boot

i stuck the win xp cd in and before i can get to the reformat option

i get an error message that qL1080.sys file is corrupted

and it has to quit the format

 

when i tried to replace his file with my own file it wouldnt let me copy it or delete it

 

any more ideas would be greatly appreciated

Edited November 5, 2004 by lazarus

[Guest zerodamage]

That means it is NOT booting from the XP cd first. You should get a thing that pops up telling you to hit any key to boot from CD. Check and make sure that the BIOS saved.

[lazarus]

no its is.

i hit del and went into bios

and i changed the cd to the first boot device

and i get the box that says hit any key to boot from cd

then it starts the process of reformating

 

i think it says its copying fiels or something

then gives me that error message

 

zd. have you seen this kind of error b4?

[Guest zerodamage]

sounds like a possible bad CD. I've never seen that before.

[mrX]

I'd repartition with a win98 boot disk (fdisk) or linux disk and then try to format.

[random_n00b]

That definately sounds like a bad disc. Check it for scratches or greasy fingerprints. If it's not an authentic-from-Microsoft disc as well, then it could've been a bad burn and you might want to try copying your authentic disc again.

[lazarus]

thx for the advice

im gonna try a different disk

my "backup copy" seems to be scratched