xp & fdisk

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Upgraded from win 2k to XP Professional. received the blue screen with error unmountable volume. fixed that and had to re-load xp. however now I have two Xp's selections and one 2000 recovery when systems boots. Needless to say system hangs and locksup once windows is totally loaded.

Question is there a way to totally fdisk from C:
i tried using the partition section within XP setup however the temp files or there and it wont let the drive be deleted. At this point all I need to do is start over with a FRESH install while deleting all previous windows installations?

anybody have any suggestions

thanks

 

[Mike Brannigan [MSFT]]

Boot from the Windows XP CD ROM. You can then remove partitions and create
a new one to install to.
Don't do the install by starting inside the existing Windows XP installation

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Upgraded from win 2k to XP Professional. received the blue screen with

error unmountable volume. fixed that and had to re-load xp. however now I
have two Xp's selections and one 2000 recovery when systems boots. Needless
to say system hangs and locksup once windows is totally loaded.

Question is there a way to totally fdisk from C:
i tried using the partition section within XP setup however the temp files

or there and it wont let the drive be deleted. At this point all I need to
do is start over with a FRESH install while deleting all previous windows
installations?

 

[Carl Garlow]

Mike,
I am trying to do the same thing - i.e. flatten an
existing partitioned hard drive that has WinXP Pro
installed on Drive C, repartition the HD, and reinstall XP
Pro on a freshly formatted drive C. I can't get the PC to
boot on the XP-Pro CD, even though I have changed the BIOS
to boot from CD, then floppy, and then HD. I even tried
deleting the HD option altogether, and it still boots to
the existing drive C: version or WinXP Pro. What am I
doing wrong??
Carl Garlow
425-865-5042 or (e-mail address removed)

 

[Mike Brannigan [MSFT]]

As long as you have set the boot device order to be the CD ROM drive first,
and you have a bootable CD - usually a Retail or OEM CD, you need to watch
the screen at the reboot for the Press any key to boot from CD message - it
is only on screen for about 3 seconds, before it bypasses the boot from CD.

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Mike
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[Michael Stevens]

Upgraded from win 2k to XP Professional. received the blue screen
with error unmountable volume. fixed that and had to re-load xp.
however now I have two Xp's selections and one 2000 recovery when
systems boots. Needless to say system hangs and locksup once windows
is totally loaded.

Question is there a way to totally fdisk from C:
i tried using the partition section within XP setup however the temp
files or there and it wont let the drive be deleted. At this point
all I need to do is start over with a FRESH install while deleting
all previous windows installations?

anybody have any suggestions

thanks

You boot from the CD and do a clean install.
Click on or copy and paste the link below into your web browser address bar.
How to clean install XP.
http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html
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