Reformat my hard drive and reinstall windows xp home

[Guest]

I've read other posts on how to do this and posts on other forums, but nothing seems to work for me, I've tried going to www.bootdisk.com and downloading the floppy but when i boot up the machine tells me to remove the media disk before I can continue. I am an absolute beginner at this but it seems I need to change my bios to boot from the cd drive, well how the heck do I do that, I've been trying to do this for over a week and and am thoroughtly frustrated with the whole thing. I read somewhere that I should be able to reformat and reinstall from my xp home edition disk, I tried that and thought it had worked, everything seemed to be gone but then when I checked my c: capacity it was still almost full, I am at a complete loss now, can anyone help me please I am at my wits end. My daughter suggested that I install Windows 98se and reformat from that but I can't even get a copy of that on the machine.

 

[Rich Barry]

You have to set your Floppy Drive as first boot device. Don't know what
your system is but in most Bios you can do
this. Then you can use the boot disk to create and delete partitions
and format.

I've read other posts on how to do this and posts on other forums, but

nothing seems to work for me, I've tried going to www.bootdisk.com and
downloading the floppy but when i boot up the machine tells me to remove the
media disk before I can continue. I am an absolute beginner at this but it
seems I need to change my bios to boot from the cd drive, well how the heck
do I do that, I've been trying to do this for over a week and and am
thoroughtly frustrated with the whole thing. I read somewhere that I should
be able to reformat and reinstall from my xp home edition disk, I tried that
and thought it had worked, everything seemed to be gone but then when I
checked my c: capacity it was still almost full, I am at a complete loss
now, can anyone help me please I am at my wits end. My daughter suggested
that I install Windows 98se and reformat from that but I can't even get a
copy of that on the machine.

 

[Guest]

firstly have you sorted it yet??? if not e-mail me and i will try to help you! but will need to know some system details i:e make, drives etc ok

hope this helps

Shark1e

 

[Kent_dieGo]

To enter the BIOS setup and select first, second and third boot device, most
motherboards press Delete key. Some motherboards F1 or F2 key or Ctrl and F1
or Ctrl and F2 keys.

Once you can boot off WinXP CD, it will be easy install from there. You can
download WinXP setup floppies (5 or 6 floppies needed) from
http://microsoft.com if your CR-ROM cannot be set as boot device. The boot
floppy at http://bootdisk.com is not good for installation of WinXP.

-Kent

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Del;
Follow this link:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/cleanxp.htm

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I've read other posts on how to do this and posts on other forums,

but nothing seems to work for me, I've tried going to www.bootdisk.com
and downloading the floppy but when i boot up the machine tells me to
remove the media disk before I can continue. I am an absolute beginner
at this but it seems I need to change my bios to boot from the cd
drive, well how the heck do I do that, I've been trying to do this for
over a week and and am thoroughtly frustrated with the whole thing. I
read somewhere that I should be able to reformat and reinstall from my
xp home edition disk, I tried that and thought it had worked,
everything seemed to be gone but then when I checked my c: capacity it
was still almost full, I am at a complete loss now, can anyone help me
please I am at my wits end. My daughter suggested that I install
Windows 98se and reformat from that but I can't even get a copy of
that on the machine.

 

[Michael Stevens]

I've read other posts on how to do this and posts on other forums,
but nothing seems to work for me, I've tried going to
www.bootdisk.com and downloading the floppy but when i boot up the
machine tells me to remove the media disk before I can continue. I am
an absolute beginner at this but it seems I need to change my bios to
boot from the cd drive, well how the heck do I do that, I've been
trying to do this for over a week and and am thoroughtly frustrated
with the whole thing. I read somewhere that I should be able to
reformat and reinstall from my xp home edition disk, I tried that and
thought it had worked, everything seemed to be gone but then when I
checked my c: capacity it was still almost full, I am at a complete
loss now, can anyone help me please I am at my wits end. My daughter
suggested that I install Windows 98se and reformat from that but I
can't even get a copy of that on the machine.

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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