boot disk?

Since you have all of his data backed up on cd do a clean
install of Windows by booting to the Windows XP CD. Make
his CD-ROM the first boot device. Then follow the
instructions. A clean install will wipe the hard drive
clean.

>-----Original Message-----
>}}} I ended up doing a dirty
>reinstall of the operating system, getting her critical
>files off the disk, and then reformatting the entire
>drive, reinstalling everything from scratch. {{{
>
>I'm close to having to do that. I did manage to copy
all his personal data
>files off on CD, so really not a lot of reason not to
reformat, reinstall,
>etc.
>
>I'll try a couple more things first, and the go that way
if none of my other
>tricks work.
>
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