Trying to Reinstall windows Vista Home Premium 32bit

Ok Heres how it started i turned on my pc the other week (Dell Dimension
E520) and it froze so i turned it of by the power button on the front of
the pc and ever since then the pc will not load up it will just hang on
the loading screen for windows then just restart its self and sometimes
even go to a blue screen with a error like hidusb.sys. So i tryed
reinstalling windows vista and i get to a option "Where do you want to
install windows" and i have no options it says no drives where found.
And then says click load driver to provide mass storage driver for
installation and im completely confused why no drives where found is
this because i have to format my hard drive or is it something else.:)


By the way sorry if this is in the wrong forum im a "Newby" to this
site.


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weeman89

You should be able to install using the hidden system restore. It should
not be asking for a place to restore as it knows where to do it and has the
drivers which you seem to be missing with your approach.

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> Ok Heres how it started i turned on my pc the other week (Dell Dimension
> E520) and it froze so i turned it of by the power button on the front of
> the pc and ever since then the pc will not load up it will just hang on
> the loading screen for windows then just restart its self and sometimes
> even go to a blue screen with a error like hidusb.sys. So i tryed
> reinstalling windows vista and i get to a option "Where do you want to
> install windows" and i have no options it says no drives where found.
> And then says click load driver to provide mass storage driver for
> installation and im completely confused why no drives where found is
> this because i have to format my hard drive or is it something else.:)
>
>
> By the way sorry if this is in the wrong forum im a "Newby" to this
> site.
>
>
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> weeman89

Had the exact thing happen last week. My problem occurred when I tried to
install a noncompatible program. Dell was able to solve it for
me...Unfortunately I don't know exactly how it was done...they may be able
to help. I could not use the system restore and I could not reinstall
Windows because it could not find the drive. I'm a newbie so this may or
may not help. Good Luck.

[mohammedaltayeb]

hey there

windows vista requires a NTFS file system to install u could have formatted ur hard disk as a fat32 so to solve this prob. just put the vista dvd into ur drive run it as always when u get to the screen which says install just click on repear a small screen should appear hit the last option (command prompt) a dos window opens it should say X:/sources u should type format c: and then press enter then click y and enter,,, if u have another partition with a copy of windows xp installed on, just go to that and go to run in the start menu type cmd and then convert c:/fs:ntfs

hope it works out for u Merry X-mas