Lookin to flat line my 5yo desktop. I wanna completely dump the hard drive, erase everything (including OS) and start fresh.

Just completed my wireless home network and played on the other PC for a bit... realizing once again how damn slow it is. Prolly full o' bugs and over loaded with crapola.

What's my easiest way to go about this task? I tried it once awhile ago, and now have 2 XP OS's on it. Don't need 3!

TIA!

 

Run down and get you a brand new hard drive, unplug your old hard drive and plug in the new one. Install XP on the new drive, get all your updates and such. Then, plug your old hard drive back in copy over all the stuff you need. Once you verified you have all your stuff on the new drive, format the old drive.

 

That's just it... other than some files which can easily be transferred via USB stick... there's nothing I need, or want. I basically want a bare bones PC for web surfin and doing school stuff. Perhaps later on some gaming.

This is going to be the PC in my "Man Lair".

 

Copy everything you want onto a USB drive, insert the XP install disk, format your hard drive and install. Then you are starting fresh.

 

Hard to do from memory I just follow the on screen prompts but it goes something like this

Put in the Windblows cd and restart the computer

Boot to CD

Hit 'R' to enable repair mode

It will boot to the CD

After it loads then you will be at a blue screen with white text

In a box it will show all your drives partitions
choose 'C'
delete it

repeat for all partitions if you want to completely wipe the drive out.

If you deleted them all then it will now say unallocated

click again and format

follow on screen instructions

then your back to that screen again and it now says 'C' again.

Click 'C' and tell it to install Windows there.

Thats really the shortened part it walks you through step by step just read the screen.



NOTE:
If you have an OEM copy of XP then it's going to be different...

 

From what I understand, you want a "fresh" copy of windows XP on your hard drive.


*Note: If you are trying to cover up something, like pr0n, photos of you and your b/f. The video you found of your mom and dad and secretly get aroused by it.You will have to format your drive several times. More than 7.

Just stick in the XP install cd you got with your computer, or bought at best buy etc. Usually when you insert the disk and restart your computer, it will say something to the effect of "press enter to continue loading cd-rom." Press enter. Then it starts loading all the dafualt neccessary drivers for XP to run. The it will ask you to repair or setup a new copy. Obviously select new copy. Since you already have an existing partition with xp, it says something like press D to delete these partitions, or c to create a new one. Delete all partitions. Make sure you delete both. If I remember correctly, you said you installed it twice. Not to be an ***, but WTF!? Now after deleting both partitions, it ask something like press C to create new parition on disk0/primary0 whatever. Unless you want to dual boot, install XP on the whole Drive. Make sure its an NTFS partition, and DO NOT do a quick format. After it gets done partitioning, it should restart on its own, the resume installing XP. However sometimes it does not, and you'll have to restart. If this happens, leave the cd in, hold power button, comp shuts of, turn back on, it resumes. easy. Now, after it says its done installing, make sure you take the cd out, or you will be starting the process all over again.

Like it has been said, it has on screen prompts. Just make sure you delete your already existing partitions, then create a new one. That is the main thing. Also make sure it is NTFS partition not fat16 or fat32. Allocate then entire disk/partition for your install if it asks.

http://www.theeldergeek.com/clean_in...windows_xp.htm (print that off)

Any other questions? This was from memory, so if you get stuck, call microsoft. Haha. Nah, J/K.

 

AKA looking at ****.

 

Shhh. No man looks at ****.