Re-installing Win XP Home Ed.

[Joe]

I have recently upgraded from Windows ME to XP Home Ed.
Now that my computer is now running XP, want to reinstall
it and have a clean hard drive. I have the XP upgrade
disk and was wondering how I would go about re-installing
Win XP?

 

[Will Denny]

Hi Joe

The following article by MVP Michael Stevens will help you:

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

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----
I have recently upgraded from Windows ME to XP Home Ed.
Now that my computer is now running XP, want to reinstall
it and have a clean hard drive. I have the XP upgrade
disk and was wondering how I would go about re- installing
Win XP?

.
you cant you hav an upgrade disk you will hav to

install me then xp

 

[Ken Blake]

In

I have recently upgraded from Windows ME to XP Home Ed.
Now that my computer is now running XP, want to reinstall
it and have a clean hard drive. I have the XP upgrade
disk and was wondering how I would go about re-installing
Win XP?

Although I don't recommend doing what you want to do, just boot
from the Windows XP CD and follow the prompts for a clean
installation. It will do the reformat for you.

It will ask you to insert the CD of a previous qualifying version
as proof of ownership. Assuming that you have such a CD (*not* a
restore CD), just do so.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

It's quite possible to perform a clean installation using an
Upgrade CD. You'll be offered the opportunity to delete, create, and
format partitions as part of the installation process.

Simply boot from the WinXP Upgrade CD. The Upgrade CD checks to
see if a qualifying OS is installed, and, if it finds none, it asks
you to insert the installation media (CD) of that OS. Unfortunately,
an OEM "Recovery/Restore" CD will not work for this purpose; you must
have a true installation CD, complete with the "\Win98" folder and
*.cab files, or the "\i386" folder of WinNT/2K.

Alternatively, or especially if all you have is an OEM Recovery CD
for the earlier OS, you can even start the upgrade from within the
current Win98/Me/NT/2K installation, and still elect to perform a
clean installation, to include formatting the drive. In this case,
there's no further request for the qualifying OS's installation CD,
because the installation routing "remembers" that you started from
within the qualifying OS. This process is more time-consuming, but
you get the same results: a clean installation of WinXP.


Bruce Chambers

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[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

Not necessarily.

Bruce Chambers

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[Ken Blake]

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you cant you hav an upgrade disk you will hav to install me

then xp


This is *not* correct. Upgrade CDs *can* do clean installations.
All that's necessary is to insert the previous qualifying
version's CD when prompted to do so.