re: Can't delete Partition on ReInstall of XP
Monday, January 19, 2004 at 9:53 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Dan Sarandrea, MCSE
(4310 messages posted)
First we have to be sure of what you want to do.
When you say "reinstall" that usually means that you want to install XP over top
of an existing installation of XP. This has the advantage of normally preserving
any existing data, docs, emails, music, etc. files and in addition keeps all of your
installed programs in place and operational. Another term for this is repair installation.
A repair reinstallation is the way to go when XP has been damaged and is not working
properly, and other troubleshooting steps haven't fixed it, and you have valuable
data on the hard disk that for some reason can't be backed up or offloaded onto other
media.
The other way to install XP is called a "clean installation." This method installs
a fresh copy of XP to a repartitioned, reformatted hard disk. As you may know, repartitioning
and reformatting a hard disk wipes out or "cleans" off any and all data that was
on it. IOW, this method starts you off with a "clean sheet of paper", a blank hard
disk.
A clean installation is the way to go when you are trying to recover from a major
disaster such as a hard drive crash, a virus infection, a trojan horse takeover,
etc.
Here's how to do a repair reinstallation:
How
to Perform an In-Place Upgrade (Reinstallation) of Windows XP
Pay close attention to the warnings about data loss!
Here's how to do a clean installation:
Paul Thurrott's
Super Site for Windows: Windows XP Clean Install (Interactive Setup)
Post back for more help.
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