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re: Formating Hard drive Tuesday, October 7, 2008 at 11:04 pm Posted by Tony (881 messages posted) OK Is there a question in there somewhere? On Tuesday, October 7, 2008 at 10:41 pm, Hyuga wrote: >Hello > >Well I'm finally ready to format my harddrive and THEN reinstall Windows XP (as opposed >to just deleting the windows fodler and reinstalling over it) >> >However I had a couple of Queries, One will this completely obliterate everything >on the old drive (so theres no chance of old settings or whatnot messing things up) >> >> & Two whats the best way to format it Using the windows XP disc or is there another >way? >> >>Thanks to any repliers [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Formating Hard drive Tuesday, October 7, 2008 at 11:08 pm Posted by MartinM (7551 messages posted) If you use the XP disk for formatting, nothing will remain that will mess up your new installation. The XP disk is perfectly adequate for the task - before you start you might give some thought to how many partitions you want - and have a read of this C: for Windows and programs D: for your own data is a sensible minimum. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Formating Hard drive Tuesday, October 7, 2008 at 11:10 pm Posted by Tony (881 messages posted) Sorry, re-read your post and there is a question in there. I missed it cause of the carrots. Yes it will delete everything, and the best way to do it is with the XP CD On Tuesday, October 7, 2008 at 11:04 pm, Tony wrote: >OK > >Is there a question in there somewhere? > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Formating Hard drive Wednesday, October 8, 2008 at 10:03 am Posted by bob wells (1636 messages posted) Carrots? I'll have to remember that one. __________________________________________________________ There's nothing to learn from someone who already agrees with you. On Tuesday, October 7, 2008 at 11:10 pm, Tony wrote: >Sorry, re-read your post and there is a question in there. I missed it cause of >the carrots. > >Yes it will delete everything, and the best way to do it is with the XP CD > > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Formating Hard drive Wednesday, October 8, 2008 at 2:57 pm Posted by cogs (179 messages posted) lol... i knew what he meant... is it carats? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Formating Hard drive Wednesday, October 8, 2008 at 4:01 pm Posted by MartinM (7551 messages posted) Carets I think ? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Formating Hard drive Wednesday, October 8, 2008 at 4:14 pm Posted by Rich Kurtz (12246 messages posted) Carets, Carrots ... What's Up Doc? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Formating Hard drive Wednesday, October 8, 2008 at 4:17 pm Posted by MartinM (7551 messages posted) Nuthin' - just Bugs. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Formating Hard drive Wednesday, October 8, 2008 at 8:28 pm Posted by PeterD (338 messages posted) Actually, ^ is a carat (also referred to as circumflex). I think the poster was (erroneously) referring to >. That's it. Lesson over! Cheers PeterD On Wednesday, October 8, 2008 at 2:57 pm, cogs wrote: >lol... i knew what he meant... is it carats? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Formatting Hard drive Thursday, October 9, 2008 at 12:40 am Posted by MartinM (7551 messages posted) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caret [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Formatting Hard drive Thursday, October 9, 2008 at 1:27 am Posted by PeterD (338 messages posted) Darn, I need a spelling lesson! On Thursday, October 9, 2008 at 12:40 am, MartinM wrote: > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caret > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Formatting Hard drive Thursday, October 9, 2008 at 3:59 am Posted by MartinM (7551 messages posted) 1 carat = 200 milligrams, but enough of this before we are disciplined for being "off-topic" :-) [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum