re: re-install of win xp
Saturday, August 1, 2009 at 7:27 pm
Windows 7 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Dan Sarandrea, MCSE
(7132 messages posted)
Backup whatever data you want to save and offload to another computer, an external
hard disk, flash drive, or as many CDs/DVDs as needed.
Disconnect all peripherals from the computer except for keyboard mouse and monitor.
Because you have two hard disks, shut down the computer and disconnect power and
data cables from the hard disk drive that is not the first disk on the primary IDE
channel, or the first sata port, whichever is applicable to your situation.
Start the computer, insert the Windows XP CD and restart in order to boot from the
Windows CD. More recent motherboards let you choose the boot order with a startup
keystroke, while others require that you change the boot order in the BIOS to start
from the CD.
Use XP Setup to delete all existing partitions on the one hard disk that is active
at the moment. Make a new partition, format in NTFS (default), and install XP to
it. (Some folks like partition the disk into more than one partition, with one partition
for the OS and the other for data.)
Once XP is up and running normally, drivers installed and updates, etc etc, reconnect
that extra disk and use XP disk management to initialize (if necessary), partition
and format it as desired.
- Written in response to:
- re: re-install of win xp (mike patterson: Friday, July 31, 2009 at 8:34 pm)
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