re: I got a bad start . . . Monday, December 17, 2001 at 2:24 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Tim (9 messages posted) You can always boot from a 98 system back-up floppy and run FDISK to repartition the drive then run format. Enter BIOS and tell the PC to boot from the CD with the XP disk in and install should start. Did Dell give you a system restore CD? On Monday, December 17, 2001 at 11:51 am, Tom Striegler wrote: >I've not done it yet, but as I understand the procedure, you set your BIOS to boot >from the CD-ROM drive, then pop in the XP CD and it takes over from there. You can >partition and format you HD from the XP CD. > >As I understand it, if you have an update edition, you will need to put the original >CD from an old Win OS when asked to confirm you're qualified for the update. > >At least I think this is how it works, but I'm sure if I'm mistaken someone more >knowledgable will correct me. > > >On Monday, December 17, 2001 at 11:21 am, Betsy wrote: > . . . on Windows XP. My hard drive had crashed and Dell replaced with >a new hard drive. I loved the idea of starting with a fresh, clean hard drive. > >Several older programs were inadvertantly loaded onto my system and multiple problems >ensured. I don't have much on the system now in the way of data, etc. and would >like to take the opportunity to completely format and get back to as clean a hard >drive as possible and re-load XP. How do I go about doing it? > >With thanks and smiles, > >Betsy Written in response to: re: I got a bad start . . . (Tom: Monday, December 17, 2001 at 11:51 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] I got a bad start . . . (Betsy: Mon, Dec 17, 2001, 11:21 am) re: I got a bad start . . . (Tom: Mon, Dec 17, 2001, 11:51 am) re: I got a bad start . . . (Tim: Mon, Dec 17, 2001, 2:24 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum