Hi
I am trying to reformat my PC, my method usually is to insert my OS cd into the tray and restart and it prompts me the questions to reformat and an hour later bobs your uncle its fresh and new.

However now its not reading the cd, when computer loads up it always says :
invalid boot.INNI file
booting from C:\windows\


I have done virus checks and cleaned out malware and trojans and it still wont let me boot the cd?

I have checked the cd rom is working correctly.

Please help!!!!!

First, understand that reformatting is ALWAYS a last ditch effort to fix broken system as it results in your system being being months, or even years behind in critical security updates - not to mention all data, email, bookmarks/favorites, will be lost, as well as any downloaded hardware drivers, programs (including security programs), and program updates. And of course, any customizations will be lost too. If you are having problems, I recommend you post those here and we can see if we can fix them before resorting to such drastic measures as reformatting/reinstall.

Do you have the CD ROM set as the first boot device in the BIOS setup menu?

I want to to clean out the pc and start afresh im actually passing it onto brother so he can use it for college.

At the minute its running quite slow even after clearing out trojans, malaware and grayware etc.

I need to find a manual way to do it, iv been told to do it through the BIOS ? which i havent got a clue what that is?


please help
thanks