Reinstalling XP

[Bill Peterson]

I recently installed Vista on my PC( clean install).I don't like it so I
want to do a clean reinstall XP.I can boot to my XP recovery disk and I get
to the screen that has 3 options: To set up XP press enter now, To repair
press R, or to exit press F3. Nothing happens when I try any of the options.
How can I reformat my hard drive to reinstall XP?
System: Dell 2400,768 ram, 40 gig harddrive.

Thanks for any help.

Bill

 

[Kevin]

I recently installed Vista on my PC( clean install).I don't like it so I
want to do a clean reinstall XP.I can boot to my XP recovery disk and I get
to the screen that has 3 options: To set up XP press enter now, To repair
press R, or to exit press F3. Nothing happens when I try any of the
options. How can I reformat my hard drive to reinstall XP?
System: Dell 2400,768 ram, 40 gig harddrive.

Thanks for any help.

Bill

Are you actually booting from the CD? You can choose F12 at boot for a one
time boot option to boot off the CD. Make sure the CD is in the drive,
reboot the machine and hit F12. Make sure you have your Dell Resource CD
handy to reinstall the hardware device drivers for XP. Or download all the
drivers off the Dell Support site. Enter the Service Tag Number of your
Dimension 2400 and you will find all available software for it. After the
Windows installation is finished be sure to install the Intel Chipset driver
first, the other drivers can be installed in any order.

 

[peter]

use BootitNG from
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/

extract to a floppy and run from the floppy..do not install.
it will show you all of your partitions and lets you format.
Then start system with Retail copy XP Cd and install new

Hopefully that XP Recovery Disk will work on a clean machine

peter