reinstall windows xp

[Dre]

Hi All
My problem here is a bit complicated and it is not about windows xp
specially
I have windows xp installed on my machine's hard disk drive on drive D:
which is a NTFS drive and I have also windows 98 installed on my drive C:
which is a FAT drive

the problem arises when I wanted to format drive D: which contains the
windows xp system to reinstall windows xp again (I need to make a clear new
installation on an empty drive)
and I don't know how to access the NTFS drive and format it and start a new
installation which will not be avaialbe through windows 98 that can't deal
with the NTFS drives

thanks in advance
Dre,

[Sharon F]

Dre wrote:
> Hi All
> My problem here is a bit complicated and it is not about windows xp
> specially
> I have windows xp installed on my machine's hard disk drive on drive D:
> which is a NTFS drive and I have also windows 98 installed on my drive C:
> which is a FAT drive
>
> the problem arises when I wanted to format drive D: which contains the
> windows xp system to reinstall windows xp again (I need to make a clear
new
> installation on an empty drive)
> and I don't know how to access the NTFS drive and format it and start a
new
> installation which will not be avaialbe through windows 98 that can't deal
> with the NTFS drives
>
> thanks in advance
> Dre,

Boot with the WinXP CD. When you run setup, you reach a part (almost at the
very end of the intro screens and right before the actual XP installation
starts) where you will have the opportunity to format the partition. Here is
a good reference page for performing a clean install of XP:
http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html


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Sharon F
Microsoft MVP, Windows - Shell/User