fomat install ?

[JG]

Hello I've been running WinXPhome for sometime on an Emachne that
came loaded with it. But started having problems with Quicken and then
ran Regcure and it trashed my machine where various software won't run.
So I decided to reinstall XP from an OEM disk I bought
(XP HOME legal CD)
However My Emachine won't boot "first" from the CD, and if
I try to format my hard drive it baulks saying volume is being
used by another process.
I tried running setup from the CD but it complains about a
version of windows already running and there could be problems
installing two versions of the OS to the hard drive.
My God I just want to format the damn hard drive and install
a legal WinXP home what in the heck do I have to do to accomplish
this?

 

[Poprivet]

Hello I've been running WinXPhome for sometime on an Emachne that
came loaded with it. But started having problems with Quicken and then
ran Regcure and it trashed my machine where various software won't
run. So I decided to reinstall XP from an OEM disk I bought
(XP HOME legal CD)
However My Emachine won't boot "first" from the CD, and if
I try to format my hard drive it baulks saying volume is being
used by another process.
I tried running setup from the CD but it complains about a
version of windows already running and there could be problems
installing two versions of the OS to the hard drive.
My God I just want to format the damn hard drive and install
a legal WinXP home what in the heck do I have to do to accomplish
this?

 

[Ricky]

This link should help..
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Hello I've been running WinXPhome for sometime on an Emachne that
came loaded with it. But started having problems with Quicken and then

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