Distructive reformat

[Susan]

I have the disks and I need to do a reformat of my hard
drive. Can someone please help me get started...

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Susan,

Boot the WinXP CD, start a new installation, you can format as part of it,
no need to do any separate steps first.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
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"Susan" > wrote in message
...
> I have the disks and I need to do a reformat of my hard
> drive. Can someone please help me get started...

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

Simply boot from the WinXP installation CD. You'll be offered the
opportunity to delete, create, and format partitions as part of the
installation process. (You may need to re-arrange the order of boot
devices in the PC's BIOS to boot from the CD.)

HOW TO Install Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;316941

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/clean_install.htm


Bruce Chambers

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"Susan" > wrote in message
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> I have the disks and I need to do a reformat of my hard
> drive. Can someone please help me get started...