Installing XP clean

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Doug G

I'm going to give my son's old PC to another relative and want to upgrade it
from WinME to XP Home. I might as well make it a clean install. However, the
hard disk is currently partitioned into 3 or 4 drives and for simplicity I'd
like the new system to just have one big C drive.

Using the standard XP upgrade procedures for a complete install instead of
an "upgrade" install, will I get the chance to reconfigure the partitions on
the hard drive, or do I have to run Partition Commander or PartitionMagic on
my own beforehand and repartition the drive manually?

Doug G
 
Hi Doug,

I'm going to give my son's old PC to another relative and want to upgrade it
from WinME to XP Home. I might as well make it a clean install. However, the
hard disk is currently partitioned into 3 or 4 drives and for simplicity I'd
like the new system to just have one big C drive.

Using the standard XP upgrade procedures for a complete install instead of
an "upgrade" install, will I get the chance to reconfigure the partitions on
the hard drive, or do I have to run Partition Commander or PartitionMagic on
my own beforehand and repartition the drive manually?

Doug G
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Booting from the Windows XP Home CD, you have the option of deleting
the current partitions and creating new ones.

See detailed instructions here:

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

Good luck
 
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