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[riiix]

i have windows Xp and i want to delete everything off of my computer and reload windows Xp. How do i do that?

Boot your PC with your winXP CD in .. then during the install process choose the current winXP partition (supposedly c: ) and choose to format it ..
That way winXP will be installed on a formated fresh partition.
PS. you will loose everything you have on your current winXP partition.

[riiix]

i tried that but when i chose to delete the partition it said i couldnt because there were setup file on there so it couldnt delete the drive

[daveleau]

Boot with a Win98 boot disk and at the A: prompt type "format C:". Then you can use FDISK.exe to repartition the drive.

[riiix]

i dont have a win98 boot disk

[John Prophet]

www.bootdisk.com

you can download any sort of bootdisk you want. Boot to the disk, then run "fdisk" and choose option "delete partition" then probably choose "delete non-dos partition".

Maybe someone can chime in and help us, but there is probably a way to make XP boot disks either off of the computer or off of the XP Disk.

JP

[riiix]

thanks alot for the help but i still havent been able to get it to work when i put in my Xp CD in and boot load it says if i want to delete partition press D or somthing then when i do it says i cant because there are setup files on the computer is that where i should be able to format or is there another spot where it actaully will let me

[John Prophet]

No, you dont want to "delete" the partition..you want to set up windows ON that partition.

I think it says some junk about already having an install of windows there but you go on anyway, then you can choose to "format" the partition...that is what you need to do..just format over it to wipe out the old info.

JP

[Droppyale]

http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;q310994

[SPEEDO]

Write zeros to the drive using the hard drive manufacturers boot disk. It will be squeaky clean and you won't have any issues loading the OS.