Clean reinstall of XP Home

[Guest]

I have 3 partitions on my drive. What I WANT to do is reformat C: and do a
clean install onto C:
What the XP Home sp1 cd did for me was install another copy on D: (also
tricked me into reformatting D: so I lost some files).
It used to be easy (with Win98), make a boot disk with fdisk and format on it.
Boot off floppy and fdisk c: then format C: then install Windows.
How can I do that now with XP???
I'm about to go berserk!!
Help please!

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

Please have a look at the following article by Michael Stevens regarding a
'Clean' install of XP:

"Clean Install Windows XP "
http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

You can use a Win 98/ME floppy to boot from if your hard disk/partition is
FAT32 formatted.

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Will Denny
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[Guest]

That sounds impossible,xp grabs at updates for the OS...If you have a xp cd
retail,boot to xp cd,recovery,select 1 For C: Press Enter key for
password,type:
DiskPart In DiskPart,delete the partitions (all) create one,press ESC key,
type:FORMAT C: /FS:ntfs When its thru,type:EXIT Reboot to xp cd,select
install xp,delete and create partition,then xp formats and installs auto.....

 

[Guest]

Main point is to make the partition you intend to install-to the Active one
first. If you don't do that, weird things will happen like Windows being on
D:

 

[me06]

hello andrew i have a quick question. my husband has a laptop and
took it in for a repair. he didnt tell me so that i could back
everything up. sssssssssoooooooooooo we have a blank comp. where do i