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Full XP Install
Name: Ken Date: April 21, 2002 at 15:59:40 Pacific
Comment:
Hi,
I am currently running Win XP upgrade on my PC form Win ME. My hard drive has loads of extra files on it I assume from Win ME as well as all of the bloat from the PC manufacturer.
What I was thinking of doing is to format the hard drive and get rid of everything, and then get the full version of Win XP and load it.
Two questions: How do I full format the hard drive to wipe it clean, and once done is it as simple as inserting the disk for XP and letting it do its thing?
Name: oscar Date: April 21, 2002 at 16:32:27 Pacific
Reply:
Let xp format the drive during install. You must chose few things: partition, format fat32 or ntfs, keyboard language, user name etc.
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Response Number 2
Name: Buzz Date: April 21, 2002 at 17:15:43 Pacific
Reply:
Pop in your XP cd and boot your computer. after it boots from cd you can choose to format your drive and install.
I reccommend formatting as NTFS, it's a much more stable file system
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Response Number 3
Name: Dick Johnson Date: April 21, 2002 at 19:21:54 Pacific
Reply:
Even an "Upgrade XP" CD can do a complete fresh install by itself. During the setup of XP, it will ask you to insert a legal CD of any windows operating system so it can extract the install code for that system to verify you've owned a previous windows system. I would use NTFS format.
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Response Number 4
Name: yeloduke Date: April 22, 2002 at 02:32:32 Pacific
Reply:
don't forget to change your boot order in bios first or it won't boot from XP cd
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