-----Original Message-----
Hi Brian
If you have OEM version XP CD, you will only be able to 'clean' install XP.
That is why you are getting no options.
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Will Denny
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
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| Hi Will
| OEM version.
| I had been playing around with
formatting/Repairing/Installing Fhe HD and
| think I had put it into the state that I described, but expected that I
| would still be allowed to format it first.
| It was reported by another application as being/having NTFS HPFS
| If that gives you any clues.
| Have you ever experienced a OEM XP Install CD not behaving in the normal
way
| with a HD when booting up?
| Brian Tozer
|
| | > Hi Brian
| >
| > What kind of XP CD have you got - OEM, Retail...?
| >
| > --
| >
| > Will Denny
| > MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
| > Please reply to the News Groups
| >
| >
| > | > | Has anyone experienced a situation where booting up a HD with the XP
| > install
| > | CD did not run thru the normal new installation routine, but instead
| went
| > | straight to an install, or it might have been a Repair install.
| > | In this situation how would I force it do do the normal basic startup
| > | process where I partition and format the CD?
| > |
| > | Brian Tozer
| > |
| > |
| >
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An excellent example of why top-posting is stupid.
Mr. Denny, did it occur to you from the OP that there might
confusion that would prohibit an answer that makes sense?
Apparently not. The OP said he was trying to boot his
HD with an XP CD (??), didn't know exactly what happened
as a result, and then capped it off by saying he was
trying to format a CD. Then you, true to MVP form, offered
an equally nonsensical answer. GIGO, I guess.
An OEM CD should indeed offer the choice to partition and
format the HD, and should offer the opportunity to do a
repair install. It sounds like what the OP has is some
sort of OEM *recovery* CD, but who knows?
