Clean Setup - want to wipe drive clean and reformat

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Lee Prevost

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
 
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
 
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
 
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