re: re-install of win xp
Sunday, August 2, 2009 at 8:16 am
Windows 7 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by mike patterson
(30 messages posted)
tks to all who responded. win xp up and running again all issues encountered with
win 7 taken care of. again, thanks
On Saturday, August 1, 2009 at 7:27 pm, Dan Sarandrea, MCSE wrote:
>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.
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