Summary: hello, i post because i followed all advices re "formatting hard drive with windows xp cd". i actually WANT to format my hard drive, but the install p...
Summary: I have a Gateway laptop, where the CD drive does not work and I have an external serial CD drive with no brand or make or serial. My laptop is blank (...
Summary: Bear49 is correct. You can use the XP system disk or a WIN98 boot floppy and use fdisk. In addition, I might suggest that you create your whole drive...
Summary: there's no difference between running the format from the XP disk and running format from a 98 boot disk. the only thing is, you don't want to partit...
Summary: Hi there do what Hooner suggest but extract them to floppy then change the sequence to Floppy first. after u have install the 6th floppy u can replace...
Summary: I have a computer with XP on it but I am having problems and can not seem to get it to work. How can I clean the disk without this operating system?...
Summary: im no pro at all but ive been trying to format my harddrive and just restart with a completely clean computer so ive been researching and all this and...
Summary: I have a friends hd which has xp & is possibly infected with a virus. It can't access windows, It says the boot.ini file has been corrupted, insert wi...
Summary: i want to format my drive so i can install windows 98 but when doing it it says i got to get rid of NTFS..what steps do i follow to format the drive w...
Summary: FORMATTING While running your current version of XP , insert the XP CD in the drive. When the setup menu appears, select "New Installation" (clean ...
Summary: Firewall - No you can't use it with XP CD burner - It's Roxio, they have lots of problems with XP Media player - No youcan only use the copy to CD fun...
Summary: What do you mean without extra cd or floppy disk? You could format with just the windows xp pro CD itself. Just boot from it and format it, then par...
Summary: What I'm tring to do is format my main drive C: and then install windows XP onto the newly formatted c drive. During the XP setup process, I never get...
Summary: Format disk error on trying a clean install of Windows XP Pro. I bought a 2nd hand PC which seemed to be working fine. I decided to add a wireless net...
Summary: I managed to format by first using a win98SE startup and fdisk. I deleted all partitions and then restarted with the XP disk in the CD ROM. I allowed ...
Summary: I tried many a times (unsuccessfully) to install Windows XP on my Hard Disk (after I had formatted my previous copy of WInME thinking I would be able ...
Summary: If you boot from 98 or me floppy, start with cd support, format c/s this will format your h/drive,re-boot with xp upgrade in cd-rom it will staret to ...
Summary: look in your drives (partitions) for a folder called i386 (400+ MBs) and make sure it isn't on the same partition as XP and that it isn't formatted wi...
Summary: you need to format hard drives before you can partition it. how are you formatting it? with XP's disk management, or with fdisk? You can try using an...
Summary: right click my computer > manage > disk managment, if you want to format the whole disk including XP, use the bootable XP cd and you'll get to a blue ...
Summary: I recently bought a PC with an AMD XP 2200+ and a Seagate 120Gb disk (ST3120023A) running XP Pro. This configuration should be fast but it felt slower...
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