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| message from DES on 1 Jun 2004 |
My son just got home form college and decided that he wants to do a complete reinstall of XP, including formatting his hard drive
to get rid of a bunch of junk.
WE tried to format the drive but windows wouldn't let us because it said the drive was in use.
He tried doing a new install from the XP CD and the install worked but it did not get rid of any of the old files.
So my question is, how can we format the c drive so we can reinstall Windows XP.
TIA
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| DES replied to roger on 3 Jun 2004 |
Thank you , I appreciate your help.
Darrell
"roger" <sergiorogerdon'tspam@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:44urb09l2kdpulgsinochh4u1ma5vcvtqv@4ax.com...
Hi,
On Tue, 1 Jun 2004 20:02:46 -0500, "DES"
<dstand_53146_no_Spam@yahoo.com> wrote:
Clean Install Windows XP
http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html
Good luck
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| Kevin replied to DES on 1 Jun 2004 |
You need to boot from the XP install CD to format and then install XP. Set
your system BIOS to boot from the CD first. Do this by rebooting the
machine and then pressing the appropriate key, it could be the delete key or
F8 or the Escape key, it varies from machine to machine. When you have made
the switch to boot from the CD, save the changes and let the machine boot
up. Stick the XP install CD in the drive and reboot. Follow the prompts
from there to format and install a new copy of XP. Just go to Google and
enter "clean install of Windows XP" and you'll get a jillion pages of
information.
"DES" <dstand_53146_no_Spam@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:aG9vc.20147$to.9269@twister.rdc-kc.rr.com...
complete reinstall of XP, including formatting his hard drive
the drive was in use.
did not get rid of any of the old files.
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| DES replied to Kevin on 2 Jun 2004 |
thank you, that was too obvious ;-(
"Kevin" <kevincf@excite.com> wrote in message news:uFVjWNESEHA.3944@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
You need to boot from the XP install CD to format and then install XP. Set
your system BIOS to boot from the CD first. Do this by rebooting the
machine and then pressing the appropriate key, it could be the delete key or
F8 or the Escape key, it varies from machine to machine. When you have made
the switch to boot from the CD, save the changes and let the machine boot
up. Stick the XP install CD in the drive and reboot. Follow the prompts
from there to format and install a new copy of XP. Just go to Google and
enter "clean install of Windows XP" and you'll get a jillion pages of
information.
"DES" <dstand_53146_no_Spam@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:aG9vc.20147$to.9269@twister.rdc-kc.rr.com...
complete reinstall of XP, including formatting his hard drive
the drive was in use.
did not get rid of any of the old files.
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