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| drew365 |
 Feb 15 2007, 10:38 PM
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I'm running Windows XP. I want to format my main C drive and reinstall windows to get rid of all traces of a program that has been giving us trouble.
I went into setup and set the CDrom as the boot drive and booted off the Win XP installation disk. But it still started my regular installation of Windows. I was able to run setup but after reinstalling Windows and a new version of my problem program it still found traces of the old version during installation. It doesn't appear that this method is actually formatting my HD just reinstalling windows on top of the earlier installation. So what can I use to boot from the CDrom and actually format the HD? I miss the simple days of floppys and FAT. |
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drew365 OT - A Little Computer Help Again Feb 15 2007, 10:38 PM
r_towle Either you need to do a new installation, or you c... Feb 15 2007, 10:43 PM drew365 During installation I chose new, not upgrade. It s... Feb 15 2007, 10:58 PM Cruzing Do not forget to format fat32 and ntsf on your har... Feb 15 2007, 11:02 PM bondo You have to go into setup in your bios (usually an... Feb 15 2007, 11:10 PM cooltimes
I'm running Windows XP. I want to format my m... Feb 15 2007, 11:27 PM r_towle what type of computer do you have?
Make, model, ye... Feb 16 2007, 09:01 AM drew365 Thanks for the suggestions. I did set all three bo... Feb 16 2007, 09:52 AM stepuptotheMike when you boot up the computer with the CD in the d... Feb 17 2007, 07:15 AM
r_towle try this.
you need to cold boot, that is shut it ... Feb 17 2007, 08:46 AM  |
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