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ruderitalin · 05-07-2008, 02:00 AM

ok heres my problem. I wanted to reformat windows so I went into "windows xp proffesional
setup"(booted to recovery disk).I have 2 internal hard drives, so I deleted them both. then
I installed windows on 1 of them and turned the other into a partition. after I turned the
second drive into a partition and pressed f3 to exit, I got the message...

"Windows XP is not completly set up on your computer. If you quit setup now, you will need

to run setup again to set up windows XP.

>to continue setup press enter
>to quit setup, press F3"

, so I just thought thats weird and exited because I knew I had installed windows on the
first drive. everything works fine except when I restart the computer without the recovery
disk inside, before windows starts I get the message "DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK
AND PRESS ENTER". if I go into "windows xp professional setup" and then press f3 to exit it
gives me the message "Windows XP is not completly set up on your computer. If you quit setup
now.......".

What is wrong and how do I fix it?

I could just change my boot order, but Im concerned this might be causing my computer
problems that I cannot see.

05-07-2008, 02:00 AM	#1 (permalink)
ruderitalin Junior Member Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 5	Reformatted computer but have problems.."windows xp is not completly set up on you.." ok heres my problem. I wanted to reformat windows so I went into "windows xp proffesional setup"(booted to recovery disk).I have 2 internal hard drives, so I deleted them both. then I installed windows on 1 of them and turned the other into a partition. after I turned the second drive into a partition and pressed f3 to exit, I got the message... "Windows XP is not completly set up on your computer. If you quit setup now, you will need to run setup again to set up windows XP. >to continue setup press enter >to quit setup, press F3" , so I just thought thats weird and exited because I knew I had installed windows on the first drive. everything works fine except when I restart the computer without the recovery disk inside, before windows starts I get the message "DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER". if I go into "windows xp professional setup" and then press f3 to exit it gives me the message "Windows XP is not completly set up on your computer. If you quit setup now.......". What is wrong and how do I fix it? I could just change my boot order, but Im concerned this might be causing my computer problems that I cannot see. Last edited by ruderitalin; 05-07-2008 at 02:28 AM.