Rebulding my PC

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I want to erase my hard drive and start form scratch. My
wife's PC has been run for 3 years without a rebuild and
has degraded to a point where it is practically useless.
How do I do this? I have tried a "new" install of XP
home, but all of the old programs are sitll there.
Thans, Mike D.
 
you need to enter your system bios (usually by pressing F2 or delete when
the computer starts.)

if you look around in the bios you will find a method of selecting the boot
device priority which is usually floppy drive by default. change it to cd
rom as the first boot device and save and exit set-up.

put your xp cd in the cd drive


then look for a message on start up which says 'press any key to boot from
cd rom'
 
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