Format Hard drive

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I bought computer from yard sale with windows xp home ed.
it works poorly and has lots of stuff i don't want and i
have no start up disk. I want to format hard drive and re
install another disk i have with windows 2000 and buy
windows xp home ed. upgrade and start over. Don't know
how to format hard drive??? Help???
 
For starters, one cannot install Windows 2000 and then upgrade
to Windows XP Home Edition.....you'll need Windows XP Pro
to perform the upgrade.

Secondly, a Windows 2000 CD will allow you to "clean install"
either Windows XP Home or Windows XP Pro upgrade versions,
providing you do not have Windows 2000 installed on another computer.

Clean Install Windows XP
http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

[Courtesy of Michael Stevens, MS-MVP]


To install Windows 2000:

The Windows 2000 CD is bootable and contains all the tools necessary
to partition and format your drive. Follow this procedure and allow
Windows 2000 to partition and format your drive:

1. Open your BIOS and set your CD Drive as the first bootable device.
2. Insert your Windows XP 2000 in the CD Drive and reboot your computer.
3. You'll see a message to boot to the CD....follow the instructions.
4. The setup menu will appear and you should elect to delete the existing
Windows partitions, then create a new partition, then format the primary
partition (preferably NTFS) and proceed to install Windows 2000.

5. After installing Windows 2000, be sure and visit the support website
of the manufacturer of the computer to download and install any
available Windows 2000 compatible drivers, such as video adapter
and audio drivers.

7. It would be best to physically disconnect all your peripheral hardware
devices, except for you mouse and keyboard, before installing W2K.
After W2K is installed, visit the support website of the manufacturer
of each hardware device to obtain the latest drivers or software
designed to work with Windows W2K.



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Nicholas

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| I bought computer from yard sale with windows xp home ed.
| it works poorly and has lots of stuff i don't want and i
| have no start up disk. I want to format hard drive and re
| install another disk i have with windows 2000 and buy
| windows xp home ed. upgrade and start over. Don't know
| how to format hard drive??? Help???
 
-----Original Message-----
I bought computer from yard sale with windows xp home ed.
it works poorly and has lots of stuff i don't want and i
have no start up disk. I want to format hard drive and re
install another disk i have with windows 2000 and buy
windows xp home ed. upgrade and start over. Don't know
how to format hard drive??? Help???
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Ray. I just got into that area myself. Go buy
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DiscSanitizerPro at the software place you go. There is
a disc you can run in your 3.5. Before you do, have any
startup disc from windows handy. The first time I did it
I used a win 98 startup disc. Just run disc sanitizer.
When that is done, restart your computer and enter the
bios by pressing delete as it boots. In advanced bios
options, make your first boot device the CD rom. Exit
that. Restart your computer with the windows CD in the
cd drive. At some point it will tell you to remove all
discs and restart your computer. At that point put the
startup disc in and leave it while you reboot. There is
a driver it has that windows needs. It should walk you
through the reformatting. After that, make sure you get
windows update and mother board site for drivers, and
every other driver you need either on disc or on their
site. JH
 
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