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06-02-2003, 06:14 PM
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Starting over with my comp
My computer has a billion errors pop up every time I start it and it runs very very very slow with no programs open even with 128 MB ram. Was wondering how I would go about completely erasing my hard drive and loading up Windows XP instead of what I currently have, ME. Any help would be great, thanks in advance.
Last edited by Bozco; 06-02-2003 at 06:16 PM.
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06-02-2003, 06:16 PM
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First, if you have anything on it that you want to save, back it up one way or another. Things like emails, music, and documents.
Once you've got that done, it's easy. You just pop in the XP cd, start a new install, tell it to format your hard drive, and you're on the way.  | 
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06-02-2003, 06:38 PM
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SAVE YOUR FAVORITES/BOOKMARKS. I always forget to do that.
Use ZIP, RAR, ACE, or BZIP2 (preferred) compression on the files. Save everythign you need! Your downlaods, patches for games, important documents, anything you need. Burn them to a CD (don't bother saving entire programs, they won't work on the new machine) after compressing them (split the archive if too big). Instead of a CD, if you have another hard drive, conect it and back up to it. Ask how here if you do not know.
Now, get a ME boot disk. Type fdisk (press enter after). Goto option 3 (I'm assuming drive C: is to be formatted, and that d: is either a CD drive or another hard drive entirely) and follow the directions to delete the partition. Now put in the XP CD, and restart the machine (type either 'reboot' or 'restart' minus quotes, then hit enter.
The directions are self-explanitory.
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06-02-2003, 06:40 PM
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BTW, What is your system specs?
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06-02-2003, 06:43 PM
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One of you says go through it with the ME boot disk while the other says just format it with the XP disk. Does it matter which way I go through with it?
Oh, and I'm not really gonna worry about backing anything up.
1 ghz Athlon processor
128 MB Ram
40 GB harddrive
CD and DVD-rom drives
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06-02-2003, 06:46 PM
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If your XP cd 's bootable use that one.
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06-03-2003, 11:47 AM
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IT doesn't really matter. My way is a little easier down the road, since Xp can set up an NTFS partition so you don't have to later. XP may do this on it's own anyway.
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06-03-2003, 11:51 AM
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xp is not going to run very well on 128 mb ram
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06-03-2003, 11:56 AM
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I agree with zidane182
You should have 256 megs of ram at the very least
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06-03-2003, 04:58 PM
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Oh, I forgot to mention I plan on upgrading to 512 MB Ram. Well thanks for the help, who knows how long till I actually do the work.
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