recently i have formatted my hard drive with win98,& installed XP media centre edition.Now i am getting the above error.Since then, i have keep  system disk & after booting i can remove my disk.How this can be solved?
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Seagate offers a free software to analyze your system and check out your hard drive.\n\nhttp://www.seagate.com/support/
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Did you install any new hardware or software before the issue occured?  You can try accessing your system using a boot disk (a floppy disk or the Windows XP boot CD).  I think if you are unable to start the system in the Safe Mode, you will probably have to reinstall the OS or format and reinstall the OS.\n\nYou can reinstall Windows XP if you have the XP installation CD.  Just pop it in and follow the instructions to reinstall (you will need to make the installation CD as the first booting device in BIOS).  To access the BIOS settings, press F2 or F8 immediately when you start your computer.  Then go to the boot sequence settings.
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May be a corrupted XP file.  DId you install anything new prior to getting the message, or done any updates?... I agree with the above suggestion.  Have you thought of doing a System Restore, too?
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First remove all partitions from your hard drive. Then try fdisk /mbr Then install your OS. Windows stinks, use linux ;)
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in windows xp there is an option called as savepoint which has the last configuration of ur system performing well.\nin a nutshell when u reboot(restart)  ur system just press F8 and then of all those options select the option\nStart in last known good configuration.\nit howevers removes any program that has been installed and is causing problem try this first,.\nif it doesnot work run a system scan using a antivirus that will definitely help.\neven then if things does not sort out format ur hard drive and reinstall everything.\nBEST OF LUCK!!!!!!!!1
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Did you try using a new cable for the hard drive ? If you are using an add-on display card, try the onboard display card and see if that makes a difference.\n\nIt would be better if you reinstalled Windows. This would help to clear the possiblity of system files being damaged.
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go to http://www.microsoft.com/ downloads section, download windows media player 9 (or 10 if you have xp sp2) and it will replace the old installation automatically.\nif the error happend again then there should be a problem with the files you trying to run with media player.
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.\nWe know what normal looks like, but your description of "stuff like local disk c is all over the place" is so vague that no one can understand the problem.\n\nI would suggest that you do not format;\njust go to your last known good configuaration:\nthat would be a restore point BEFORE the problem began.\n\n1.  Click START > Programs > Accessories >\n2.  Click System Tools > Click System Restore\n3.  Select a date prior to the problem, and then follow the prompts to complete the wizard.\n\nh2h
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Which OS?  If you are running XP can you get into safe mode?  Press F8 right after start up and select safe mode.  If you are able to run in safe mode there is something starting when XP is running in standard mode.  If that is the case I would try a system restore if you have had that enabled.  While in safe mode from the start menu click programs, accessories, system tools, system restore.  Select a date before the problem started.  Good Luck
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Let me get this right, it says you need to format it, in order to be able to use it?  The only thing I can think of is if you were trying to boot from it, it might say that, but Windows is telling you this?  If you were using Windows XP you shouldn't even have needed to install drivers, it should have just worked.  Format means it would completely wipe the drive, typically done when you either want to sell the drive or reinstall Windows.\n\nIs the drive working now?  I just can't fathom this... unless you aren't using Windows XP.  What operating system are you using right now?\n\nI'm asking because if the drive had Windows XP on it, it was most likely formatted as a NTFS drive.  If you plugged the drive into a Windows 98/ME machine, it would not recognize the NTFS format (probably, it's been a LONG time since I've used any Windows 9x OS) and would want to format it.\n\nWell, that's your problem then.  Windows ME will not recognize a drive that had Windows XP on it that was formatted as NTFS.  If the XP drive had been formatted as FAT32 then Windows ME would not have had a problem with it.  But, since it isn't recognizing it, it's a safe assumption that the drive was formatted as NTFS.  I think the "computer guy" assumed that it was FAT32 (though how he could have missed that is beyond me) or that you were going to plug it into another Windows XP machine.  If it were a blank drive (non-formatted) it would indeed be compatible with all the operating systems you listed.  But, as I said, the NTFS format is compatible only with Windows 2000/XP and Mac OS can read NTFS formatted volumes but not write to them.\n\nGet access to a PC that has Windows XP on it, plug the drive it, pull all the files you want off of it, burn them to a CD or stick them on a flash drive and transfer them to your laptop.  Or get yourself a new laptop that has Windows XP on it.  (I don't know how much you are willing to spend in this pursuit).\n\nTo everyone who's answered this question, it's not a drive problem or a USB problem, it's the simple fact that Windows ME cannot read a NTFS formatted drive.\n\nThat gives me another thought.  While you can safely convert a FAT32 volume to NTFS the same is not true for NTFS to FAT32, in fact, it's dangerous, it may result in data loss.  Partition Magic among other programs has the ability to convert a NTFS volume back to FAT32 but it may result in damaging files and you may end up having to reformat the drive after all.\n\nThe only answer and the only correct answer is to plug the drive into a Windows XP or 2000 based system and see if the drive is recognized, I'm 99% sure it will be.  If it is not then I could only take a wild guess as to what is wrong with it.
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Here is support information for that error.\nhttp://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;303089&spid=2514&sid=312
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Did you boot from the CD-rom to install Windows??  Sounds like the drive doesn't have the system files to it.  \n\nHere's a link with instruction to perform a clean Windows XP install:\n\nhttp://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_sg_clean.asp
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XP uses NTFS which may not require a chkdisk,  It may also be doing it in the background and not telling you.
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Do not delete the C drive. Use this drive to store files.\n\nIf you want you can reinstall XP, but that is a different situation.
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goto recov con, and look if there is a boot.ini file in you c:&#92; or where ever you installed you xp, ">edit boot.ini" most probably the boot default= is set to the wrong partition, else it could be bad sector, bad disk format, no space on disk available...many more.\ngood luck.\np.s: default= multi(0)disk(0)rdisk( 0)partition(1)&#92;WINDOWS\nis set to boot from the first partition on the disk, if you copy and past this make sure to remove the space in rdisk( 0).
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When you start the installation for XP, it'll ask you to format or remove the current partition.  You can remove all partitions and reformat this way.
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format c:/\nYou can also format the drive by just putting the xp disk into the drive and restarting the computer, when it asks which drive to install it too look at your options.  Delete the partition and create a new one.  Through the process you will format your drive.