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Formatting after XP install
Name: Tex Date: October 26, 2001 at 09:43:46 Pacific
Comment:
Could someone xplain (clever eh?!) the process of formatting a HD after installing XP on it cos i chose the wrong install option, i really want a clean install.
How do i creat a boot disk to recognise CD ROM and what files need to be on the disk?
Anyones help would be grately appreciate! Thanks in advance.
Name: brutus Date: October 26, 2001 at 09:48:21 Pacific
Reply:
u can get the booting disks from microsoft...they have them now on their site. go and xplore ( ;)) their site. but winxp cd is bootable just change the booting option if u have to from ur bios.
brutus
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Response Number 2
Name: LT Fang Date: October 26, 2001 at 09:49:25 Pacific
Reply:
Boot your computer with the XP CD, make sure CDROM is in your BIOS boot sequence, then you can format your hard drive from there.
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Response Number 3
Name: Tex Date: October 26, 2001 at 09:51:44 Pacific
Reply:
Thank you both!! Fingers crossed ill be up and running in and hour or so!! Just one last thing....if im formatting shall i go for NTFS or FAT32?
Thank u!!!!
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Response Number 4
Name: brutus Date: October 26, 2001 at 09:57:22 Pacific
Reply:
it depends on what u want...I have NTFS for xp and fat32 for 98se. Using NTFS lets u use the security option plus there are other reasons why u should use either one...I suggest u read about it.
good luck
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Response Number 5
Name: bimsydevil Date: December 18, 2001 at 19:27:21 Pacific
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i am trying to get rid of xp and go to win98se since i get too many hardware conflicts on this comp.. i tried using a startup disk and to no luck it wouldnt let me format saying that there is no format command.... please help.. thx
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Response Number 6
Name: MADDOGKID Date: December 24, 2001 at 17:45:48 Pacific
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