Reformatting the existing Hard Drive

[Tim Boyle]

I have a Sony Vaio (PIII/600512MB)RAM that I upgraded
from 98 to XP home, and have found that it's now REALLY
slow. I would like to format the hard drive within XP
first to see if it improves performance, and possibly
roll it back to 98 if it doesn't. Can anyone help with
some XP format directions for a low level format, or
better yet instructions to reformat from XP back to 98?
Please e-mail if you would.Thank you.

[Alvin A Brown]

Hello TIm

Well all you have to do is boot with either a Win 98 cdrom
or your Win XP cdrom and that will take you through a few menu
options and ask you what you want to do ok. Make your cdrom
the 1st boot device and go for it. One more thing if you have any
important data BACK IT UP

Alvin


Tim Boyle wrote:

> I have a Sony Vaio (PIII/600512MB)RAM that I upgraded
> from 98 to XP home, and have found that it's now REALLY
> slow. I would like to format the hard drive within XP
> first to see if it improves performance, and possibly
> roll it back to 98 if it doesn't. Can anyone help with
> some XP format directions for a low level format, or
> better yet instructions to reformat from XP back to 98?
> Please e-mail if you would.Thank you.

[Peter A. Stavrakoglou]

"Tim Boyle" > wrote in message
...
> I have a Sony Vaio (PIII/600512MB)RAM that I upgraded
> from 98 to XP home, and have found that it's now REALLY
> slow. I would like to format the hard drive within XP
> first to see if it improves performance, and possibly
> roll it back to 98 if it doesn't. Can anyone help with
> some XP format directions for a low level format, or
> better yet instructions to reformat from XP back to 98?
> Please e-mail if you would.Thank you.

You can uninstall the XP upgrade and go back to 98. As for
formatting, you cannot format the partition of your hard drive that XP
resides on while you are running Windows. Do you have multiple
partitions on your drive? You can format your drive and reinstall XP
using the XP CD-ROM. Put the CD in, reboot the system, enter the
BIOS, set the CD-ROM as your first boot option, save BIOS changes,
then reboot. After booting to the CD, follow the on-screen prompts.