removal and installation of WinXP on the same HD

[Cory]

How can I remove XP on a partition of my HD, format that
partition and reinstall XP onto the partiton?

 

[MGGP]

Use and boot from the WinXP installation disc, remove the
partition, recreate one in the space on the drive called
Unpartitioned Space, install and voila, it's done !

Good Luck !

 

[Cory]

Won't let me delete the partition =\

-----Original Message-----
Use and boot from the WinXP installation disc, remove the
partition, recreate one in the space on the drive called
Unpartitioned Space, install and voila, it's done !

Good Luck !

.

 

[Tumbleweed]

Is it the only partition? (ie C?

 

[Kelly]

Fdisk/Format.

 

[Alex Nichol]

How can I remove XP on a partition of my HD, format that
partition and reinstall XP onto the partiton?

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

Be sure to get the Firewall enabled before going on the Internet *at
all* even for a moment or you will be hit by the Blast or Sasser worms.
It could be worth getting the consolidated CD of security updates (which
includes SP1) in advance - order at
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/cd/order.asp
and also in advance download the patches for KB articles

835732 (Sasser)
837009 (OE Cumulative)
832894 (IE Cumulative)
828741 (XP Cumulative)
828028 (ASN 1)
837001 (Jet Engine)

And run all these before connecting - at all.

 

[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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