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How do u reformat a windows xp PRO
Name: tony Date: January 21, 2002 at 19:53:52 Pacific
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how do u reformat a windows xp PRO? well i have a widnows 98 and windows ME which i like to install except i dont noe how to reformat a windows XP pro. so please help.
Name: rick Date: January 21, 2002 at 20:20:20 Pacific
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Response Number 2
Name: Matt Date: January 21, 2002 at 21:16:04 Pacific
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use a winME or 98 bootdisk, run fdisk, then choose the option to delete a non dos partition, then you can either create a fat32 to install ME or 98, or you can just boot off win2000 or winXP if you plan on installing one of those and they'll create the partitions for you
I had a bad install from win xp-home to win xp-pro... Now I'm trying to start over from scratc and reformat c: but when I use the xp recovery option it will not let me delete the win xp partition!! When I try to reformat using a win98 boot disk at the A: dos promt... no matter what I try .... fdisk or "format C" or even format c:/s ... is always tells me - bad command or file name! HELP!! Do I have a bad boot disk or how to I fix this????
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Response Number 4
Name: Tom Date: March 23, 2002 at 09:27:04 Pacific
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I am having the same problems as Rod. Appernetly, if you use xp pro cd as a boot disk, you go into windows setup. The option to repartion, or remove partion is somewhere in there, I don't know where but its there
Summary: How do you reformat a Windows XP hard drive when you DO NOT have a Windows XP CD-ROM? I was not given a Windows XP CD-ROM when I bought my computer. XP was already installed on hard drive. The comman...
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