Satellite A100 - recovery disk loop

Hey guys,.

I am currently trying to reformat/reinstall Windows on my laptop A100. There is nothing wrong with that, I just wanted a clean install. I use the recovery disk and start the laptop through the DVD player. It reads the DVD fine I get "Loading the RAMDisc Image" or something else, and fill the bars and loads. After that, I see a cursor with a black background and then after a few seconds, the phone restarts and brings back me to the start screen for Toshiba again. Does anyone know what is the problem?

I used the disc before and it worked fine. The only difference between yesterday and today is that I partitioned my hard drive into three sections (Windows XP, Windows Vista, Misc files storage), but I don't think it would be a problem.

In addition, if you use the recovery disk does not, is there another way to wipe the hard drive and start over? (That is to say, reformat the entire computer and reinstall my OS?)

Thanks in advance!

What happened to my laptop. To resolve this problem, I deleted all the partitions on the disk using FDISK non-dos and then was taken successfully.

You can download free startup BACK disks on www.bootdisk.com (choose the custom floppy Win98SE, there FDISK).

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