Reformatting

[pjwinkler]

Just would like to know how to reformat my hardrive. I know how to partition and instal Windows XP.

 

[dfuze]

Start up the pc w/ the disc in the drive (ensure the bios setting lets you boot from the cd rom first before hard drive). It will then go to a blue screen and let you press F6 if you need to install a 3rd party raid driver as it loads the setup files.

After loading the files, you agree (F8) to their licensing and then select to install XP (sorry forgot the button on that one).

Instead of just reinstalling it on "C", make sure you delete "C" then recreate it. Then select the new "C" to install XP on. If you just select "C" without removing and then recreating it, you will have two copies of XP on your C Drive. It's like dual booting the same OS...

As you can see, there's not much to it.

 

[John]

Originally posted by: pjwinkler
Just would like to know how to reformat my hardrive. I know how to partition and instal Windows XP.

SRSLY? If you're booting to the XP cd to run setup you are prompted to format after creating the partition. If you choose not to create/delete partition(s) you have the option to format or leave the file system intact.

Originally posted by: dph1077
Instead of just reinstalling it on "C", make sure you delete "C" then recreate it. Then select the new "C" to install XP on. If you just select "C" without removing and then recreating it, you will have two copies of XP on your C Drive. It's like dual booting the same OS.

It's not necessary to delete the 'c' partition when you are doing a clean install. All you need to do is hit enter once it shows you the windows partition and then choose format on the next screen.