Reinstalling XPpro

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I want to reformat and reinstall my OS on C: drive. My computer is a Dell
8200 with 2 120 gig hard drives, divided into 4 partitions each. My OS is an
upgrade from XP home to XP pro and located on C: drive (no other OS's). When
I try to boot from the cd I get a stop error stating that I need to check
any new software or hardware for proper installation before proceeding. I
don't have anything new on the computer. When I try to delete the partition I
get the msg. That it is unable to delete because there are setup files stored
there. I would like to know if there is a way to work around this.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Thanks LarryO
 
Since the OS is now installed to the system partition I wouldn't
delete/recreate the partition as this is going to cause drive letters to
shift and the system partition to move to the next available primary
partition.

To do a clean install, boot the Windows XP install CD-Rom. Setup inspects
your computer's hardware configuration and then begins to install the Setup
and driver files. When the Windows XP Professional screen appears, press
ENTER to set up Windows XP Professional.

(Note: If your drive controller is not natively supported then you'll want
to boot the Windows XP CD-Rom. Then *F6* very early and very important (at
setup is inspecting your system) in the setup to prevent drive controller
detection, and select S to specify additional drivers. Then later you'll be
prompted to insert the manufacturer supplied Windows XP driver for your
drive controller in drive "A")

Read the license agreement, and then press the F8 key to accept the terms of
the license agreement and continue the installation.

When the Windows XP Professional Setup screen appears, all the existing
partitions and the unpartitioned spaces are listed for each physical hard
disk. At this point choose to format only the system partition and continue
the install.


Be sure to apply SP2 or at least these two below to your new install before
connecting to any network. Internet included. (sasser, msblast)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...be-3b8e-4f30-8245-9e368d3cdb5a&displaylang=en

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-043.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-049.mspx

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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:
|I want to reformat and reinstall my OS on C: drive. My computer is a Dell
| 8200 with 2 120 gig hard drives, divided into 4 partitions each. My OS is
an
| upgrade from XP home to XP pro and located on C: drive (no other OS's).
When
| I try to boot from the cd I get a stop error stating that I need to check
| any new software or hardware for proper installation before proceeding. I
| don't have anything new on the computer. When I try to delete the
partition I
| get the msg. That it is unable to delete because there are setup files
stored
| there. I would like to know if there is a way to work around this.
|
| Any help would be greatly appreciated
|
| Thanks LarryO
 
larryo said:
I want to reformat and reinstall my OS on C: drive. My computer is a Dell
8200 with 2 120 gig hard drives, divided into 4 partitions each. My OS is an
upgrade from XP home to XP pro and located on C: drive (no other OS's). When
I try to boot from the cd I get a stop error stating that I need to check
any new software or hardware for proper installation before proceeding. I
don't have anything new on the computer.
Click to expand...


It sounds like you need to disable the BIOS's antivirus option.

When I try to delete the partition I
get the msg. That it is unable to delete because there are setup files stored
there. I would like to know if there is a way to work around this.
Click to expand...

Don't try to start the installation from within Wiindows.

And here's a suggestion to help prevent confusion over which drive
letter is assigned to which partition, and to help ensure that you don't
acidentally format the wrong partition: simply use WinXP's Disk
Management applet to assign a clearly identifiable volume label to each
partition before starting.

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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