Alex Nichol
January 5th 04, 09:54 PM
shadow wrote:
>how do i reformat my hard drive with windows xp on it? i
>remember having these six disks that i used one time but
>i dont have them. can anyone tell me the site to get
>those again? or can anyone tell me a way to reformat a
>hard drive using windows xp?
Provided you can boot a CD, You do it as part of a reinstall of the
system after booting the XP CD direct. Enter Setup, and after the
license agreement take New Install. When it asks you to confirm where,
hit ESC; select and delete the current partition and make a new RAW one
to be formatted at the next stage
The important point is the delete. Without that it will just go ahead
and make a new install over the top of the old one
If you cannot boot a CD then you need those disks, which come from
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;310994
- run the downloaded program to generate them - then boot them and from
the resulting prompt run Setup on the XP CD, then proceed in the same
way as above
--
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K. (remove the D8 bit)
>how do i reformat my hard drive with windows xp on it? i
>remember having these six disks that i used one time but
>i dont have them. can anyone tell me the site to get
>those again? or can anyone tell me a way to reformat a
>hard drive using windows xp?
Provided you can boot a CD, You do it as part of a reinstall of the
system after booting the XP CD direct. Enter Setup, and after the
license agreement take New Install. When it asks you to confirm where,
hit ESC; select and delete the current partition and make a new RAW one
to be formatted at the next stage
The important point is the delete. Without that it will just go ahead
and make a new install over the top of the old one
If you cannot boot a CD then you need those disks, which come from
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;310994
- run the downloaded program to generate them - then boot them and from
the resulting prompt run Setup on the XP CD, then proceed in the same
way as above
--
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K. (remove the D8 bit)