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[Joe Jopling]

How can I clean everything from my hard drive and get a
clean installation of XP -- like we used to do with
c:\format c ?

[Joli Ballew]

Just pop the disk in to the CD drive, and tell XP you want to install. When
prompted choose Clean Install. That should do it!

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"Joe Jopling" > wrote in message
...
> How can I clean everything from my hard drive and get a
> clean installation of XP -- like we used to do with
> c:\format c ?

[Joe Jopling]

I thought that was what I did, and I did get a new XP
install, but...It did not clean off my previously
installed programs and their data that I had generated. It
did not clean off the Dell stuff I was trying to get rid
of.However it did hide all of them so that I did not know
they were there (they did not show under ALL Programs)so I
installed some again until I found out what was going on.
Now I have a huge mess and more my document files than I
will ever find. I am so glad I have good backups.
I will do what you say again tomorrow. I also have the
problem now of getting rid of the Recovery Console before
I do it. Thanks. JJ
>-----Original Message-----
>Just pop the disk in to the CD drive, and tell XP you
want to install. When
>prompted choose Clean Install. That should do it!
>
>--
>Joli Ballew
>Author of Windows XP Professional - The Ultimate Users
Guide
>NEW EDITION!
>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-
/1932111832/qid=1051627390/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/104-6151436-
5265553?v=glance&s=books
>
>Purchase my XP E-books at www.expert-guides.com
>
>
>
>"Joe Jopling" > wrote in message
...
>> How can I clean everything from my hard drive and get a
>> clean installation of XP -- like we used to do with
>> c:\format c ?
>
>
>.
>

[Amethyst]

Joe Jopling wrote:
> How can I clean everything from my hard drive and get a
> clean installation of XP -- like we used to do with
> c:\format c ?

The Windows XP CD is bootable and contains all the tools necessary
to partition and format your drive. Follow this procedure and allow
Windows XP to partition and format your drive:

1. Open your BIOS and set your CD Drive as the first bootable device.
2. Insert your Windows XP CD in the CD Drive and reboot your computer.
3. You'll see a message to boot to the CD....follow the instructions.
4. The setup menu will appear and you should elect to delete all the
existing
partitions, then create a new partition, then format the primary
partition (preferably NTFS) and proceed to install Windows XP.

5. Windows XP Clean Install:
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_sg_clean.asp

6. Accessing Motherboard BIOS
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/bios_manufacturer.htm

(courtesy of Nicholas)



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