Reformatting with XP Pro...

[TOCSYS]

A friend of mine was in the process of reformatting his HDD so he could install XP Pro. His previous OS was ME so he used the ME bootdisk to run fdisk and format. When he switched to his CDROM drive to run setup he got a message saying that XP cannot be installed through DOS. How the heck do you do a fresh reformat with this OS then?! Is he missing somthing? Any info would be appreciated. Thanks.


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[CuervDoh]

Good question. I myself just ran the upgrade from ME and didn't format. I don't have your answer however.

 

[kylef]

You have to boot to the WinXP Installation CD to run setup. There may also be a way to use bootdisks as in Win2k, but in either case the NT kernel gets booted to run Setup. You can't run the setup program from DOS. That's why he got the error message.

 

[CrowDog]

Yup...You need to change you boot order in bios...change it so CDrom boots first.

Once your in the set up its lets you format and create partitions as you wish.