[FONT=Comic Sans MS]Hi all
I have a trivial problem that I have never come across. I have a Fulitsu siemens Amilo laptop and I have decided to re-format the harddrive as it was full of junk. The problem I am getting is that once I load the windows xp disc(original) it loads all tthe data as normal. when it gets to the stage where is asks you what you want to do, I press entre and it go´s to the license agrrement F8. press that and thei I get the next screen to format the hardrive. This when the laptop just shuts down. I have done this for several time and It manages to start the reformating but it shut down again. Now I have a harddrive with no OS. When I ran the laptop as normal before the re-format and loaded windows it would stay on with no problem.
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leave your laptop off for at least 1 day in a sutiable enviroment (i.e underbed), then try again it could be something to do with bios permissions and or the temperature control ( you might be surprised as to what this does im had simular problems to this)

What is your exact model of Amilo? Fujitsu-Siemens support has the manuals and downloads for particular models.

http://support.fujitsu-siemens.com/c...ort/index.html

Have you reinstalled XP on this computer before?

I am just wondering if the Fujitsu-Siemens recovery process and or disks might have some particular procedures.

Or are you using a Microsoft XP CD?

did you alter the boot order in the BIOS (press F2 when it starts)

I've got a Fulitsu siemens Amilo laptop and a couple of day after buying it I reformatted the drive (to get rid of AOL norton and all other bundled software )with a legit copy of XP and used the keycode that was on the sticker underneath.

I had no problems, after it was up and running I needed to use the amilo driver disc

I managed to get it going at last...The problem was that it was over heating, Once I cleaned the fan I managed to re-install with no problem what so ever. Now I am happy to have my laptop working at full strength!!!!!!!!

the laptop is quite a leg warmer, the cat also like the warm air blowing out

Glad you're all sorted

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