aaron
December 5th 03, 12:22 AM
you can boot to the XP cd. Choose install..when you get to
the part of where you want to install to ..delete the
existing partition. This will allow you to create a new
partition to install to..after the install you can go into
disk management to create the other partition or
partitions.
>-----Original Message-----
>Can anyone tell me the correct way to erase all files on
>a hard drive? I have a school computer and the people who
>assembled it dedicated all 40GB to one drive letter (C:)
>thus can't have multiple operating systems or multiple
>drives. I have both XP Home Edition & Professional. My
>problem is a have tried to reinstall but it always
>installs on top of the 30GB or so that are already used.
>I want to start over with this hard drive clean. Is there
>anyway to accomplish my task? I have all A+/Net+
>microsoft books from school for reference, it seems
>regular DOS commands do not aply to XP. Thank you for
>your help, J
>.
>
the part of where you want to install to ..delete the
existing partition. This will allow you to create a new
partition to install to..after the install you can go into
disk management to create the other partition or
partitions.
>-----Original Message-----
>Can anyone tell me the correct way to erase all files on
>a hard drive? I have a school computer and the people who
>assembled it dedicated all 40GB to one drive letter (C:)
>thus can't have multiple operating systems or multiple
>drives. I have both XP Home Edition & Professional. My
>problem is a have tried to reinstall but it always
>installs on top of the 30GB or so that are already used.
>I want to start over with this hard drive clean. Is there
>anyway to accomplish my task? I have all A+/Net+
>microsoft books from school for reference, it seems
>regular DOS commands do not aply to XP. Thank you for
>your help, J
>.
>