Reformatting

[arthur kelly]

I need to load XP Home on a small drive at work that
already has two versions of 98 on it. I need to know how
to reformat a hard drive to clean it before I do the
install. I want the 98 to go away and make use of the
little bit of hard drive I do have. I use it only for
small jobs but I need it. I have always wanted to learn
to reformat anyway and this is as good a time as any.
Hard drive is 3gb on an older Acer cpu driven by
pentium. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

[Steve C. Ray]

Formatting may not be your problem. XP will need around 1.5 Gb, not counting
space for restore, and other functions. And the hardware on that machine
will probably not be compatible with XP, plus other driver problems. I think
you will have a very poor performing computer, if it will run at all with
XP.
I'm sorry if I sound too negative, but I think you will be making a lot of
problems for yourself, and may well find that it will be cheaper to
replace/upgrade the Acer.

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"arthur kelly" > wrote in message
...
> I need to load XP Home on a small drive at work that
> already has two versions of 98 on it. I need to know how
> to reformat a hard drive to clean it before I do the
> install. I want the 98 to go away and make use of the
> little bit of hard drive I do have. I use it only for
> small jobs but I need it. I have always wanted to learn
> to reformat anyway and this is as good a time as any.
> Hard drive is 3gb on an older Acer cpu driven by
> pentium. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks

[§kullywag©-]

On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 08:42:09 -0500, "Steve C. Ray" >
wrote:

>Formatting may not be your problem. XP will need around 1.5 Gb, not counting
>space for restore, and other functions. And the hardware on that machine
>will probably not be compatible with XP, plus other driver problems. I think
>you will have a very poor performing computer, if it will run at all with
>XP.
>I'm sorry if I sound too negative, but I think you will be making a lot of
>problems for yourself, and may well find that it will be cheaper to
>replace/upgrade the Acer.

I'd agree. You don't say how fast your machine is.....but if it came
with a 3G hard drive..........chances are you might need
a) larger hard drive
b) faster processor
c) more RAM
just to get it to run as well as 98 on your current configuration.
XP WILL run on slower machines.......but only shines on faster
machines with fairly up to date components.

My advice is stick with 98 or cough up for new or upgraded machine.


§kullywag©-

[bobbyjak]

The others gave good advice..If you really want to do it then set your cdrom as the 1st
boot device in your bios, put in xp cd, boot, then follow instructions on screen..Pretty
straight forward..

"arthur kelly" > wrote in message ...
> I need to load XP Home on a small drive at work that
> already has two versions of 98 on it. I need to know how
> to reformat a hard drive to clean it before I do the
> install. I want the 98 to go away and make use of the
> little bit of hard drive I do have. I use it only for
> small jobs but I need it. I have always wanted to learn
> to reformat anyway and this is as good a time as any.
> Hard drive is 3gb on an older Acer cpu driven by
> pentium. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks