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Re-Installing XP
Name: ubiqman Date: February 25, 2005 at 17:25:27 Pacific OS: WINXP CPU/Ram: 1.3 GHz, 640 RAM
Comment:
Hello. I am new to this so bear with me. Here are my computer's specs to the best of my knowledge.
Dell Dimension 8100 1.4 GHZ Pentium IV 640 MB RAM 120 GB (two 60 GB drives) NVIDIA GeForceGraphics XP Home Edition
I was trying to re-install XP, my computer is not loading XP, the loading bar just keeps scrolling when it comes up... I did some poking and created a boot disk which wants me to re-install XP. My question is will XP erase both of my hard drives I have on the computer, or just the one I am installing XP onto.
Name: Johnw Date: February 25, 2005 at 17:53:45 Pacific
Reply:
To be safe , always disconnect the 2nd hard drive .
"I was trying to re-install XP" , have you formatted ?
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Response Number 2
Name: per Date: February 25, 2005 at 18:55:21 Pacific
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How to do a system repair.--Boot from the xp cd and go past the recovery console to the install menu. Select repair the existing installation. You won't lose any data except the xp updates. Unless you have a slipstream sp1 cd you will have to d/l sp1 and all subsequent updates. You MUST have at least SP1 installed and the updates for security reasons. Be sure the firewall and A/V is active before going online as you will be susceptible to sasser and msblaster. If you don't want SP2 go to autopatcher.com and d/l SP1 and subsequent updates.
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