Formatting and partitioning for XP set up.

[Stephen Evans]

Dear Kelly

I want to format my drive and reload Windows XP
professional. I am new to this and wonder how to go about
it. I have some knowledge BUT when it comes to this sort
of thing I am a bit of a novice. Do I require boot disks
from a floppy OR can i boot up from a CD and if so, how do
I go about it. I also want to partition my CD into several
sections as I do a lot of work seperately to other work
and programmes. I obviously do not want to "STUFF IT UP"
so if you coulkd help in simple language, that would be
great. My home email is (e-mail address removed) OR work is
(e-mail address removed) I am prepared to send a donation as
well. Do you have any CD's out that also help and that I
coulkd purchase etc etc...

Regards

Stephen Evans - Sydney Australia.

 

[Roger Bryant]

Thusly, it was spoken by the voices from within Stephen Evans's head on
9/21/2004 9:19 PM:

Dear Kelly

I want to format my drive and reload Windows XP
professional. I am new to this and wonder how to go about
it. I have some knowledge BUT when it comes to this sort
of thing I am a bit of a novice. Do I require boot disks
from a floppy OR can i boot up from a CD and if so, how do
I go about it. I also want to partition my CD into several
sections as I do a lot of work seperately to other work
and programmes. I obviously do not want to "STUFF IT UP"
so if you coulkd help in simple language, that would be
great. My home email is (e-mail address removed) OR work is
(e-mail address removed) I am prepared to send a donation as
well. Do you have any CD's out that also help and that I
coulkd purchase etc etc...

Regards

Stephen Evans - Sydney Australia.

Your windows xp cd is bootable. Part of the installation process is you
can set up different partition, specify file systems (great for
multi-booters like me). Even if XP is your only OS (I use XP, ME, and
on some occaisions linux), I would reccomend that you create at least 1
separate partition for documents (so if for some reason your OS gets
hosed and you have to reinstall, your documents are still intact)...

 

[Rock]

Dear Kelly

I want to format my drive and reload Windows XP
professional. I am new to this and wonder how to go about
it. I have some knowledge BUT when it comes to this sort
of thing I am a bit of a novice. Do I require boot disks
from a floppy OR can i boot up from a CD and if so, how do
I go about it. I also want to partition my CD into several
sections as I do a lot of work seperately to other work
and programmes. I obviously do not want to "STUFF IT UP"
so if you coulkd help in simple language, that would be
great. My home email is (e-mail address removed) OR work is
(e-mail address removed) I am prepared to send a donation as
well. Do you have any CD's out that also help and that I
coulkd purchase etc etc...

Regards

Stephen Evans - Sydney Australia.

Clean install information
http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

 

[Alex Nichol]

I want to format my drive and reload Windows XP
professional. I am new to this and wonder how to go about
it. I have some knowledge BUT when it comes to this sort
of thing I am a bit of a novice. Do I require boot disks
from a floppy OR can i boot up from a CD and if so, how do
I go about it.

You do it as part of a reinstall of the system after booting the XP CD
direct. Start by powering on and immediately hitting the hot key that
gets to your BIOS setup (often DEL, there will likely, if you hit that
and it is wrong, be a 'hit whatever to enter Setup'), In that look
either on a BIOS settings for Boot order, arrow key down to it and use
PageDn to cycle to CDRom, C:. Or if there is a separate Boot page, on
that select the CD Drive with down arrow, then use the Number pad + to
push it to the top. Either way, ESC and Exit, saving settings, with the
XP CD ready in the drive, so it then boots. You will probably have to
hit a key to confirm that you want to. On reboots during setup, don't
let it boot the CD again, though you will still want it in the drive.

Enter Setup, and after the license agreement take New Install. When it
asks you to confirm where, hit ESC; select and delete the current
partition and make a new RAW one to be formatted at the next stage

The important point is the delete. Without that it will just go ahead
and make a new install over the top of the old one