reformat hard drive

[shadow]

how do i reformat my hard drive with windows xp on it? i
remember having these six disks that i used one time but
i dont have them. can anyone tell me the site to get
those again? or can anyone tell me a way to reformat a
hard drive using windows xp?

shadow

 

[Chris Lanier]

Greetings

The Windows XP CD is bootable and contains all the tools necessary to
partition and format your drive. Follow this procedure and allow Windows XP
to partition and format your drive:
[If you CD Drive is not bootable you will want those 6 boot floppies -
http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm]

1. Open your BIOS and set your CD Drive as the first bootable device.
2. Insert your Windows XP CD in the CD Drive and reboot your omputer.
3. You'll see a message to boot to the CD....follow the instructions.
4. The setup menu will appear and you should elect to delete the existing
Windows partitions, then create a new partition, then format the primary
partition (preferably NTFS) and proceed to install Windows XP.

5. Clean Install Windows XP
http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html
[Courtesy of Michael Stevens, MS-MVP]

6. After installing Windows XP, be sure and visit the support website of
the manufacturer of the computer to download and install any available
Windows XP compatible drivers, such as video adapter and audio drivers.

 

[shadow]

thnks man. the bootdisk site is what i was looking for.
thanks a bunch man.

-----Original Message-----
Greetings

The Windows XP CD is bootable and contains all the tools necessary to
partition and format your drive. Follow this procedure and allow Windows XP
to partition and format your drive:
[If you CD Drive is not bootable you will want those 6 boot floppies -
http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm]

1. Open your BIOS and set your CD Drive as the first bootable device.
2. Insert your Windows XP CD in the CD Drive and reboot your omputer.
3. You'll see a message to boot to the CD....follow the instructions.
4. The setup menu will appear and you should elect to delete the existing
Windows partitions, then create a new partition, then format the primary
partition (preferably NTFS) and proceed to install Windows XP.

5. Clean Install Windows XP
http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html
[Courtesy of Michael Stevens, MS-MVP]

6. After installing Windows XP, be sure and visit the support website of
the manufacturer of the computer to download and install any available
Windows XP compatible drivers, such as video adapter and audio drivers.

how do i reformat my hard drive with windows xp on it? i
remember having these six disks that i used one time but
i dont have them. can anyone tell me the site to get
those again? or can anyone tell me a way to reformat a
hard drive using windows xp?

shadow

.

 

[Chris Lanier]

Glad to help

thnks man. the bootdisk site is what i was looking for.
thanks a bunch man.

-----Original Message-----
Greetings

The Windows XP CD is bootable and contains all the tools necessary to
partition and format your drive. Follow this procedure and allow Windows XP
to partition and format your drive:
[If you CD Drive is not bootable you will want those 6 boot floppies -
http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm]

1. Open your BIOS and set your CD Drive as the first bootable device.
2. Insert your Windows XP CD in the CD Drive and reboot your omputer.
3. You'll see a message to boot to the CD....follow the instructions.
4. The setup menu will appear and you should elect to delete the existing
Windows partitions, then create a new partition, then format the primary
partition (preferably NTFS) and proceed to install Windows XP.

5. Clean Install Windows XP
http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html
[Courtesy of Michael Stevens, MS-MVP]

6. After installing Windows XP, be sure and visit the support website of
the manufacturer of the computer to download and install any available
Windows XP compatible drivers, such as video adapter and audio drivers.

how do i reformat my hard drive with windows xp on it? i
remember having these six disks that i used one time but
i dont have them. can anyone tell me the site to get
those again? or can anyone tell me a way to reformat a
hard drive using windows xp?

shadow

.

 

[Alex Nichol]

how do i reformat my hard drive with windows xp on it? i
remember having these six disks that i used one time but
i dont have them. can anyone tell me the site to get
those again? or can anyone tell me a way to reformat a
hard drive using windows xp?

Provided you can boot a CD, You do it as part of a reinstall of the
system after booting the XP CD direct. Enter Setup, and after the
license agreement take New Install. When it asks you to confirm where,
hit ESC; select and delete the current partition and make a new RAW one
to be formatted at the next stage

The important point is the delete. Without that it will just go ahead
and make a new install over the top of the old one

If you cannot boot a CD then you need those disks, which come from
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;310994
- run the downloaded program to generate them - then boot them and from
the resulting prompt run Setup on the XP CD, then proceed in the same
way as above