I have the retail version of Windows XP/upgrade and an am
upgrading a Gateway Win 98 machine.

I want to completely reformat the C: drive and put a
clean new install down as I had a lot of stability
problems with Win 98. I can't seem to make this happen
as the setup puts temp files on the C: drive when
installing itself. Can anyone suggest a way to do this?

Thanks,

Lee

Me Too. I upgraded from ME to XP and I choose Clean
Install. I expected this to remformat the C drive and
then install XP. It left lots of junk around including
some problem applications that are defeating my firewall.
I now have XP installed on C: and I want to reformat C:
and either leave XP installed or reinstall after the
reformat. I'm worried that if I use the reformat command
and then try to reinstall the XP upgrade, it won't
recognize that I had ME installed previousl and that I am
eligible to use the upgrade version I bought.


Brad
>-----Original Message-----
>I have the retail version of Windows XP/upgrade and an am
>upgrading a Gateway Win 98 machine.
>
>I want to completely reformat the C: drive and put a
>clean new install down as I had a lot of stability
>problems with Win 98. I can't seem to make this happen
>as the setup puts temp files on the C: drive when
>installing itself. Can anyone suggest a way to do this?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Lee
>.
>

Install xp cd,recovery,type:FORMAT C: FS/ntfs
If asked for password press enter key,for help in recovery
type:FORMAT /? When thru,type:EXIT You might have to
reboot to cd again,then XP will install
>-----Original Message-----
>I have the retail version of Windows XP/upgrade and an am
>upgrading a Gateway Win 98 machine.
>
>I want to completely reformat the C: drive and put a
>clean new install down as I had a lot of stability
>problems with Win 98. I can't seem to make this happen
>as the setup puts temp files on the C: drive when
>installing itself. Can anyone suggest a way to do this?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Lee
>.
>

Brad - I ended up doing this again. they key was booting
from the XP CD and then reinstalling and deleting the C:
partition where my old stuff was located. This gave me
the option to reformat (note: NOT Quick format) the
whole drive which wiped it clean.

Not very intuititve but got this to work on the 4th try.

Lee
>-----Original Message-----
>Me Too. I upgraded from ME to XP and I choose Clean
>Install. I expected this to remformat the C drive and
>then install XP. It left lots of junk around including
>some problem applications that are defeating my
firewall.
>I now have XP installed on C: and I want to reformat C:
>and either leave XP installed or reinstall after the
>reformat. I'm worried that if I use the reformat
command
>and then try to reinstall the XP upgrade, it won't
>recognize that I had ME installed previousl and that I
am
>eligible to use the upgrade version I bought.
>
>
>Brad
>>-----Original Message-----
>>I have the retail version of Windows XP/upgrade and an
am
>>upgrading a Gateway Win 98 machine.
>>
>>I want to completely reformat the C: drive and put a
>>clean new install down as I had a lot of stability
>>problems with Win 98. I can't seem to make this happen
>>as the setup puts temp files on the C: drive when
>>installing itself. Can anyone suggest a way to do
this?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Lee
>>.
>>
>.
>