Trouble Reformat

[MethodTangX]

I'm on ak's pc right now. Funny thing is i reformat my pc 3 times in a row with the restore disk today and didn't turn out well. I'm afraid it might cause the problem wat grunt said wear and tear. so first I use fdisk, delete the partition, and create a primary dos partition? do i need to buy a WinXp disk or I just use the restore disk as it is? cuz wat my restore disk do is just pop a message saids: 1.recover winxp 2.boot to command prompt. then i pick 1 and it pop another message said" this will reinstall winxp, press any key to continue" i continue. another message saids"are u sure" I pick yes. then it uses symantec ghost 7.0 to install files. is that count as both format and reinstall OS? I'm not sure thats wat it does.

[Paulius]

Yes,

That restore disk automatically reformats and reinstalls Windows very fast. You do NOT need to use fdisk as fdisk is very old software that does not create partitions well.

[MethodTangX]

ok. there is still a same problem after reformating and start to slow down patiently. after the window loading screen, it kept showing this blue screen saids something that have to do with physical memory dump and kepts looping the restart. does that mean there's a problem with my ram or is it something else? it happen yesterday and today. how can i find out wat type of ram works right for my pc?