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PLZ HELP!!!
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Name: ZAN
Date: July 25, 2002 at 06:09:57 Pacific
Subject: PLZ HELP!!!
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Comment: i am going to re-format my hard drive and clean install WINXP.I am REALLY unsure however about how to install XP from CD ROM if the drivers and such have been deleted? How to i manage to do this.PLZ HELP!
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Response Number 2
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Name: Miskva
Date: July 25, 2002 at 06:30:06 Pacific
Subject: PLZ HELP!!!
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Reply: (edit)whats the link to DOS ? do you mean you deleted your DOS drivers ? XP is so good, it doesnt need additional drivers ;)
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Response Number 3
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Name: Doug
Date: July 25, 2002 at 07:20:54 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)No DOS drivers needed. Be sure you have an XP boot disk (floppy), unless of course your machine has a bootable CD-ROM drive. The WinXP boot disk will have generic CD-ROM drivers on it to allow you to install the OS. -Doug
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Name: Dan Penny
Date: July 25, 2002 at 07:24:38 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)DOS doesn't exist in XP. Have you tried posting this in the XP forum? Enter your bios and change the boot sequence to CDROM, A, C and boot the machine. It will boot from the cd. I'm not sure if it will give you the ability to format as I've only removed XP from two friends machines and installed 98SE, never installed it (XP) or even looked at the contents of the cd. Alternatively, you could use a 98 or 98SE boot disk and boot with that, and format the drive. But, not sure about that either as the 98 O/S boot disk might not "see" the partition for XP. Sorry, I've never messed with NTFS file systems, only removed them with fdisk. But, there's some ideas anyway. Good luck.
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Response Number 5
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Name: ZAN
Date: July 25, 2002 at 08:55:46 Pacific
Subject: PLZ HELP!!!
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Reply: (edit)TO MISKVA:No i just assumed when u formatted it booted up in DOS mode and then you took it from there (installed XP from there) Is this not correct?
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Response Number 6
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Name: Miskva
Date: July 26, 2002 at 06:03:15 Pacific
Subject: PLZ HELP!!!
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Reply: (edit)OK, now I see I am not an expert in installing new windows (and certainly not XP) .. but you will need the DOS CDROM drivers before you can install ANY system using a CDROM as source As said, I am not sure at all, but I would suggest to have a bootable disc (floppy or cdrom) close which is able to start your whenevr you should get stuck maybe you have to format c:, and still using DOS, copy the XP disc to your harddrive, boot from some minimal setup system, and lauch your installation from harddisk better check this with 'experts' on the domain, I am just guessing
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Response Number 7
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Name: Paul
Date: July 28, 2002 at 11:02:06 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)ok I need to reformat my PoS Compaq Presario 5030 and I have no Idea as to how I get the the bios and reformat the damn thing.
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Response Number 8
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Name: Volker
Date: August 26, 2002 at 08:50:45 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)You can make a winxp bootable dos disk. Go into explorer and right click on you floppy drive. go to format, then check the box that says dos bootable floppy.
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