John Harrison
December 12th 03, 07:55 AM
>-----Original Message-----
>I bought computer from yard sale with windows xp home ed.
>it works poorly and has lots of stuff i don't want and i
>have no start up disk. I want to format hard drive and
re
>install another disk i have with windows 2000 and buy
>windows xp home ed. upgrade and start over. Don't know
>how to format hard drive??? Help???
>.
>Ray. I just got into that area myself. Go buy
DiscSanitizerPro at the software place you go. There is
a disc you can run in your 3.5. Before you do, have any
startup disc from windows handy. The first time I did it
I used a win 98 startup disc. Just run disc sanitizer.
When that is done, restart your computer and enter the
bios by pressing delete as it boots. In advanced bios
options, make your first boot device the CD rom. Exit
that. Restart your computer with the windows CD in the
cd drive. At some point it will tell you to remove all
discs and restart your computer. At that point put the
startup disc in and leave it while you reboot. There is
a driver it has that windows needs. It should walk you
through the reformatting. After that, make sure you get
windows update and mother board site for drivers, and
every other driver you need either on disc or on their
site. JH
>I bought computer from yard sale with windows xp home ed.
>it works poorly and has lots of stuff i don't want and i
>have no start up disk. I want to format hard drive and
re
>install another disk i have with windows 2000 and buy
>windows xp home ed. upgrade and start over. Don't know
>how to format hard drive??? Help???
>.
>Ray. I just got into that area myself. Go buy
DiscSanitizerPro at the software place you go. There is
a disc you can run in your 3.5. Before you do, have any
startup disc from windows handy. The first time I did it
I used a win 98 startup disc. Just run disc sanitizer.
When that is done, restart your computer and enter the
bios by pressing delete as it boots. In advanced bios
options, make your first boot device the CD rom. Exit
that. Restart your computer with the windows CD in the
cd drive. At some point it will tell you to remove all
discs and restart your computer. At that point put the
startup disc in and leave it while you reboot. There is
a driver it has that windows needs. It should walk you
through the reformatting. After that, make sure you get
windows update and mother board site for drivers, and
every other driver you need either on disc or on their
site. JH