How To Clean Install Windows XP

[Marc Harmon]

I want to clean install WindowsXP sp2 on a newly placed 160 GB SATA HD. This
is not an upgrade, simply a redo to get back to ground zero.
I use F12 to get to boot-up list choice, load the CD-ROM, but nothing
happens when I hit Enter to choose to install WindowsXP sp2. Also nothing
happens when I hit R to repair (or is it restore).
Why? Or Work Around?

Last week when the drive was blank, I formatted and installed with all the
same hardware and the same Dell disc as now.

What I'm doing now:
With the current system up and running I insert the install disk (from Dell)
in the CD-ROM drive and restart; hold F12 and choose CD-ROM drive from that
list.
It reaches a point where it says to install hit "Enter". (R-Repair and
?-quit)
None of these work.
I hit enter and wait 10 min with no change.
So I shut the power off.

What am I doing wrong or what can I do to clean install windows XP.

Thanx

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I want to clean install WindowsXP sp2 on a newly placed 160 GB SATA
HD. This is not an upgrade, simply a redo to get back to ground
zero.

I use F12 to get to boot-up list choice, load the CD-ROM, but
nothing happens when I hit Enter to choose to install WindowsXP
sp2. Also nothing happens when I hit R to repair (or is it restore).
Why? Or Work Around?

Last week when the drive was blank, I formatted and installed with
all the same hardware and the same Dell disc as now.

What I'm doing now:
With the current system up and running I insert the install disk
(from Dell) in the CD-ROM drive and restart; hold F12 and choose
CD-ROM drive from that list.
It reaches a point where it says to install hit "Enter". (R-Repair
and ?-quit)
None of these work.
I hit enter and wait 10 min with no change.
So I shut the power off.

What am I doing wrong or what can I do to clean install windows XP.

USB keyboard?

 

[Bruce Chambers]

I want to clean install WindowsXP sp2 on a newly placed 160 GB SATA HD. This
is not an upgrade, simply a redo to get back to ground zero.
I use F12 to get to boot-up list choice, load the CD-ROM, but nothing
happens when I hit Enter to choose to install WindowsXP sp2. Also nothing
happens when I hit R to repair (or is it restore).
Why? Or Work Around?

Last week when the drive was blank, I formatted and installed with all the
same hardware and the same Dell disc as now.

What I'm doing now:
With the current system up and running I insert the install disk (from Dell)
in the CD-ROM drive and restart; hold F12 and choose CD-ROM drive from that
list.
It reaches a point where it says to install hit "Enter". (R-Repair and
?-quit)
None of these work.
I hit enter and wait 10 min with no change.
So I shut the power off.

What am I doing wrong or what can I do to clean install windows XP.

Thanx

Don't try to start the installation from within Windows. You need to
boot from the Dell Recovery CD.


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[Marc Harmon]

Yes USB keyboard

USB keyboard?

 

[Marc Harmon]

I am saying I restart after putting the CD in the CD-ROM, and via F12, I
assume I am booting up off the disc.

Is there another way to start-up off the CD other than F12?
With a USB keyboard?

mac

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I am saying I restart after putting the CD in the CD-ROM, and via
F12, I assume I am booting up off the disc.

Is there another way to start-up off the CD other than F12?
With a USB keyboard?

Set the BIOS settings so that the CD/DVD drive is the first boot device.

 

[Marc Harmon]

How do I do this? Aet the BIOS setting so that the CD/DVD drive is the first
boot device?
ALSO I am wrong.

Keyboard is PS2

 

[Daave]

That would depend on what kind of Dell you have. See:

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/bios_manufacturer.htm

 

[Walter]

That would depend on what kind of Dell you have. See:

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/bios_manufacturer.htm

i aggree