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Windows XP after this?
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Will Denny
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Why do you need to reformat? A 'Repair' install may help:
"How to Perform a Windows XP Repair Install"
http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm
Failing that:
"Clean Install Windows XP"
http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html
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| I need to reformat my hard drive. How do I reload
| Windows XP after this?
Why do you need to reformat? A 'Repair' install may help:
"How to Perform a Windows XP Repair Install"
http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm
Failing that:
"Clean Install Windows XP"
http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html
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Will Denny
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
Please reply to the News Groups
| I need to reformat my hard drive. How do I reload
| Windows XP after this?
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Ken Blake, MVP
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Just boot from the Windows XP CD and follow the prompts for a
clean installation. It will do the reformat for you.
You can find detailed instructions here:
http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html
However why do you want to do this? With a modicum of care, it
should never be necessary to reinstall Windows (XP or any other
version). I've run Windows 3.0, 3.1, WFWG 3.11, Windows 95,
Windows 98, Windows 2000, and Windows XP, each for the period of
time before the next version came out, and each on two machines
here. I never reinstalled any of them, and I have never had
anything more than an occasional minor problem.
It's my belief that this mistaken notion stems from the technical
support people at many of the larger OEMs. Their solution to
almost any problem they don't quickly know the answer to is
"reformat and reinstall." That's the perfect solution for them.
It gets you off the phone quickly, it almost always works, and it
doesn't require them to do any real troubleshooting (a skill that
most of them obviously don't possess in any great degree).
But it leaves you with all the work and all the problems. You
have to restore all your data backups, you have to reinstall all
your programs, you have to reinstall all the Windows and
application updates,you have to locate and install all the needed
drivers for your system, you have to recustomize Windows and all
your apps to work the way you're comfortable with.
Besides all those things being time-consuming and troublesome,
you may have trouble with some of them: can you find all your
application CDs? Can you find all the needed installation codes?
Do you have data backups to restore? Do you even remember all the
customizations and tweaks you may have installed to make
everything work the way you like?
Occasionally there are problems that are so difficult to solve
that Windows should be reinstalled cleanly. But they are few and
far between; reinstallation should not be a substitute for
troubleshooting; it should be a last resort, to be done only
after all other attempts at troubleshooting by a qualified person
have failed.
If you have problems, post them here, it's likely that someone
can help you and a reinstallation won't be required.
I need to reformat my hard drive. How do I reload
Windows XP after this?
Just boot from the Windows XP CD and follow the prompts for a
clean installation. It will do the reformat for you.
You can find detailed instructions here:
http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html
However why do you want to do this? With a modicum of care, it
should never be necessary to reinstall Windows (XP or any other
version). I've run Windows 3.0, 3.1, WFWG 3.11, Windows 95,
Windows 98, Windows 2000, and Windows XP, each for the period of
time before the next version came out, and each on two machines
here. I never reinstalled any of them, and I have never had
anything more than an occasional minor problem.
It's my belief that this mistaken notion stems from the technical
support people at many of the larger OEMs. Their solution to
almost any problem they don't quickly know the answer to is
"reformat and reinstall." That's the perfect solution for them.
It gets you off the phone quickly, it almost always works, and it
doesn't require them to do any real troubleshooting (a skill that
most of them obviously don't possess in any great degree).
But it leaves you with all the work and all the problems. You
have to restore all your data backups, you have to reinstall all
your programs, you have to reinstall all the Windows and
application updates,you have to locate and install all the needed
drivers for your system, you have to recustomize Windows and all
your apps to work the way you're comfortable with.
Besides all those things being time-consuming and troublesome,
you may have trouble with some of them: can you find all your
application CDs? Can you find all the needed installation codes?
Do you have data backups to restore? Do you even remember all the
customizations and tweaks you may have installed to make
everything work the way you like?
Occasionally there are problems that are so difficult to solve
that Windows should be reinstalled cleanly. But they are few and
far between; reinstallation should not be a substitute for
troubleshooting; it should be a last resort, to be done only
after all other attempts at troubleshooting by a qualified person
have failed.
If you have problems, post them here, it's likely that someone
can help you and a reinstallation won't be required.
B
Bruce Chambers
Greetings --
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
Bruce Chambers
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Help us help you:
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on
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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
Bruce Chambers
--
Help us help you:
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on
having both at once. - RAH
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Alex Nichol
I need to reformat my hard drive. How do I reload
Windows XP after this?
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
You will of course need to back up all data first, and reinstall all
software. Make sure you enable the firewall before going on the net
even for an instant to get patches
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