partmgr.sys problem

[cairo]

today im trying to format my friends computer because his window had crashed, i meet two problem here

one is

"floppy disk(s) fail" i ignore it, cause my friends dont have floppy drive

then i continue to format, after deleting partition and continue to format step

during formating, it hang there, after a long time, it prompt out blue screen and state

partmgr.sys

DRIVER_UNLOADED_WITHOUT_CANCELLING_PENDING_OPERATION

TECHNICAL INFORMATION:

stop:0x000000000ce (0xfae4b667, 0x00000000, xxxxxx)

actually what'd happened here ?now im hanging in the air, i have no idea what step can i take next ?

how does it come from ? what should i do ?

Edited December 29, 2006 by cairo

[cairo]

no body know ?

[_sphinx_]

Sorry; I'm gonna need more clarification here.

What exactly are you doing and when does this message appear?

[cairo]

im formating a computer, when i enter bios, "floppy disk(s) fail" message appear ( because by no floppy drive ?) i ignore it, so i continue, i boot from window cd to format and install window xp,after created partition, next is formating step,during formating, it didn't move, after half hour, it appear blue screen

partmgr.sys

DRIVER_UNLOADED_WITHOUT_CANCELLING_PENDING_OPERATION

TECHNICAL INFORMATION:

stop:0x000000000ce (0xfae4b667, 0x00000000, xxxxxx)

[_sphinx_]

So you get the BSOD?

Well, that means that the current Windows installed is corrupt. Maybe there's a bad sector in the hard drive....

BTW, is the Windows you're trying to install authentic?