New Hard Drive and Clean Install of XP Home

[Roy Colson]

What is best? Using the manufactures (Western Digital) or the Windows
reinstall CD to partition and format the new drive.

 

[GHalleck]

What is best? Using the manufactures (Western Digital) or the Windows
reinstall CD to partition and format the new drive.

IMO, just boot up the Windows XP home cdrom and start the
installation from it. One of the first tasks will be set up
the partitioning and formatting.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

What is best? Using the manufactures (Western Digital) or the Windows
reinstall CD to partition and format the new drive.

It shouldn't make any difference, really. For simplicity's sake, just
use the WinXP installation CD.

Simply boot from the WinXP installation CD. You'll be offered the
opportunity to delete, create, and format partitions as part of the
installation process. (You may need to re-arrange the order of boot
devices in the PC's BIOS to boot from the CD.)

HOW TO Install Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;316941

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/clean_install.htm


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[Jonny]

What is best? Using the manufactures (Western Digital) or the Windows
reinstall CD to partition and format the new drive.

Use the WD software from boot media to verify and check the hard drive for
full function throughout. Always do this with new WD hard drive. If
satisfactory, the XP installation CD is fine for partitioning. You'll more
likely have to use NTFS for get over 32GB size partition(s) using this
method though is the only restriction.

If you have an XP restore CD ("reinstall CD"?), you're stuck with its
partition size and filesystem it uses. There is no choice without
additional 3rd party partitioning tools.