wiping a hard drive clean.

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I have installed xp pro on two partitions on my 250 gb wd drive. I
deleted one that didn't have sp2 on it. the pc boots fine but the old
partition remains. I'd like to wipe the drive clean, one partition,
and reinstall my xp pro which has sp2. Any help will be appreciated.
Please excuse my lack of knowledge about xp but I'm just starting to use it.
 
mwebsurfer said:
I have installed xp pro on two partitions on my 250 gb wd drive. I
deleted one that didn't have sp2 on it. the pc boots fine but the
old partition remains. I'd like to wipe the drive clean, one
partition, and reinstall my xp pro which has sp2. Any help will be
appreciated. Please excuse my lack of knowledge about xp but I'm
just starting to use it.
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A disk manager does that easily. You just put the boot CD into the
drive and manage the disk from there.

Good luck.
 
A disk manager does that easily. You just put the boot CD into the
drive and manage the disk from there.
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That's cryptic enough.

Try Partition Magic. Afte installation you can turn the 2nd partition into
free space and then add it onto your first partition. At that point I would
remove PM for the potential problems that it could cause in the future.
Maybe the last poster would care to offer a suggestion for the disk manager
he's proposing to make it a little clearer what the OP could do if not using
PM.
 
Jan Alter said:
That's cryptic enough.

Try Partition Magic. Afte installation you can turn the 2nd partition into
free space and then add it onto your first partition. At that point I
would remove PM for the potential problems that it could cause in the
future. Maybe the last poster would care to offer a suggestion for the
disk manager he's proposing to make it a little clearer what the OP could
do if not using PM.

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Jan Alter
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or
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The o/p doesn't need to do any of that. Boot from the XP cd, remove the old
partition(s), create a new one, format and install.

SteveH
 
The o/p doesn't need to do any of that. Boot from the XP cd, remove the
old partition(s), create a new one, format and install.

SteveH
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After re-reading -doh

You're absolutely right.
 
Jan Alter said:
That's cryptic enough.
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True. Thanks (and to SteveH) for filling in the details
Try Partition Magic. Afte[r] installation you can turn the 2nd
partition into free space and then add it onto your first
partition.
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PartitionMagic is a disk manager. I would use either the boot CD or
or Partition Manager's boot CD. No need to install Windows first.
At that point I would
remove PM for the potential problems that it could cause in the
future.
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Not use PM's boot CD and not have PM installed? No way.
Maybe the last poster would care to offer a suggestion for the
disk manager he's proposing to make it a little clearer what the
OP could do if not using PM.
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I guess Partition Manager is better. I can't live without a disk
manager. It's like a file manager (Windows Explorer) for disk
drives.

SteveH is right. But I was a little confused why the original poster
wouldn't already know how to do that. I was thinking maybe he
couldn't do that for whatever reason.
 
mwebsurfer said:
I have installed xp pro on two partitions on my 250 gb wd drive. I deleted
one that didn't have sp2 on it. the pc boots fine but the old partition
remains. I'd like to wipe the drive clean, one partition,
and reinstall my xp pro which has sp2. Any help will be appreciated.
Please excuse my lack of knowledge about xp but I'm just starting to use
it.
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Try this:

http://dban.sourceforge.net/
 
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