re: Format HD with XP installed...
Tuesday, December 18, 2001 at 1:51 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Kan Yabumoto
(1 messages posted)
Duplicate entries in \Documents and Settings:
When I re-installed the XP pro from scratch into the
drive which I had the XP, even if I chose a fresh
install (which cleans up the C:\Windows directory),
it did not clean up the C:\Documents and Settings
directory where a directory will be made for each
XP user. The trouble is the newer installation tries
to avoid existing names in the directory,
it created a similar but distinct directories.
Before at C:\Documents and Settings
Admin
kan
All Users
Default User
After the re-installation at C:\Documents and Settings
Admin
Admin.SINALOA
kan
kan.SINALOA
All Users
All Users.WINDOWS
Default User
Default User.WINDOWS
Here, tye machine name is "SINALOA" and my user
name is "kan". The "My Documents" directory is
now linked to "C:\Documents and Settings\kan.SINALOA\My Documents" .
The trouble was I saw some other linkages left that
are still pointing to my older directory (which were
not deleted automatically). I'm not sure if this is
a bug or what. But, I did not want to take chances
to otherwise a perfect and new system and I renamed the entire C:\Documents and
Settings directory to
something else from DOS and once more, re-installed
the XP.
Kan Yabumoto
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On Tuesday, December 18, 2001 at 12:52 pm, Rob wrote:
>How do i format my hard drive if i have Windows XP installed? What i want to do
>is get rid of XP and then completely reinstall it. Not just copy over it. Thanks
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