Format Hard Drive

[DES]

My son just got home form college and decided that he wants to do a complete reinstall of XP, including formatting his hard drive
to get rid of a bunch of junk.

WE tried to format the drive but windows wouldn't let us because it said the drive was in use.

He tried doing a new install from the XP CD and the install worked but it did not get rid of any of the old files.

So my question is, how can we format the c drive so we can reinstall Windows XP.

TIA

 

[Kevin]

You need to boot from the XP install CD to format and then install XP. Set
your system BIOS to boot from the CD first. Do this by rebooting the
machine and then pressing the appropriate key, it could be the delete key or
F8 or the Escape key, it varies from machine to machine. When you have made
the switch to boot from the CD, save the changes and let the machine boot
up. Stick the XP install CD in the drive and reboot. Follow the prompts
from there to format and install a new copy of XP. Just go to Google and
enter "clean install of Windows XP" and you'll get a jillion pages of
information.

My son just got home form college and decided that he wants to do a

complete reinstall of XP, including formatting his hard drive

to get rid of a bunch of junk.

WE tried to format the drive but windows wouldn't let us because it said the drive was in use.

He tried doing a new install from the XP CD and the install worked but it

did not get rid of any of the old files.

 

[DES]

thank you, that was too obvious ;-(





You need to boot from the XP install CD to format and then install XP. Set
your system BIOS to boot from the CD first. Do this by rebooting the
machine and then pressing the appropriate key, it could be the delete key or
F8 or the Escape key, it varies from machine to machine. When you have made
the switch to boot from the CD, save the changes and let the machine boot
up. Stick the XP install CD in the drive and reboot. Follow the prompts
from there to format and install a new copy of XP. Just go to Google and
enter "clean install of Windows XP" and you'll get a jillion pages of
information.

My son just got home form college and decided that he wants to do a

complete reinstall of XP, including formatting his hard drive

to get rid of a bunch of junk.

WE tried to format the drive but windows wouldn't let us because it said the drive was in use.

He tried doing a new install from the XP CD and the install worked but it

did not get rid of any of the old files.

 

[roger]

Hi,

My son just got home form college and decided that he wants to do a complete reinstall of XP, including formatting his hard drive
to get rid of a bunch of junk.

WE tried to format the drive but windows wouldn't let us because it said the drive was in use.

He tried doing a new install from the XP CD and the install worked but it did not get rid of any of the old files.

So my question is, how can we format the c drive so we can reinstall Windows XP.

TIA

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

Good luck

 

[DES]

Thank you , I appreciate your help.

Darrell



Hi,

My son just got home form college and decided that he wants to do a complete reinstall of XP, including formatting his hard drive
to get rid of a bunch of junk.

WE tried to format the drive but windows wouldn't let us because it said the drive was in use.

He tried doing a new install from the XP CD and the install worked but it did not get rid of any of the old files.

So my question is, how can we format the c drive so we can reinstall Windows XP.

TIA

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

Good luck

 

[roger]

You're welcome, Darrell
Glad to help.

Thank you , I appreciate your help.

Darrell



Hi,



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

Good luck