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Question

ok so my hard drive is low on sapce so i ve decided to sart completely over how do i do this, i heard that i should reinstall XP but i dont know please help

Answer 1

Hello,

Sorry to hear about the problems. Totally wiping out your hard drive and reinstalling windows is not something you should do. You will have to backup what you want to keep and use some utilities to accomplish this task and there are alot of steps to take.

So what I recommend, is that you simply upgrade your hard drive inside you computer. Please note that you will need the XP Standard ed and key. I recommend COMPUSA for your hard drive purchase. Doing this would be easier then me make more or less a flow chart for ya.

Make sure you take your computer info with you...like brand name, model, and the current hard drive capacity. (Double Click My Computer > Right click on C:\ and note the used, free space, and total space.

Good Luck!

Answer 2

Using the recovery disk that come with computers vary from one manufacture to the next, so the best thing to do is check the documentation that came with your computer or read what it says on the face of the disk. Sometimes, they have an interface setup so that if you put it in the computer while you are running Windows you will get a menu of choices. If that doesn't work you can just leave the CD/DVD in the drive and reboot, and your system is configured to boot off of that drive, then you will be asked a series of questions. One of which will be about formatting the hard drive. You will want to say "OK" to the question, because if you don't the old information will be left on the drive.

However, before you go taking such a drastic step of restoring your drive back to factory spec, you might want to consider either upgrading the size of your hard drive to a larger one before you do the procedure above or you might want to take a look at where all your space is going instead and regain some of that space.

My guess is you probably have a lot of software on your system that you aren't even using. For example, my wife and I have DSL, so we do not need any of the AOL or other ISP offers that came with any of my 8 computers, so the first thing I did was removed that software from my computers. I also don't need a lot of the other software that came with my computers, because I have my own software that I prefer to use. Plus, some of the computers had software that would monitor my internet activity and get me deals based off of it. Yeah, like I want that one!

Another place to look is software that you haven't used in quite a while. Usually, if I don't use it in 6 months I remove it. If I need it again I can always re-install it again from my CD/DVD.

Also look at your data files. It's amazing how much we can manage to collect over a period of time. If you download pictures/video/music, then I would organize them and burn them onto CD/DVD and then get them off your hard drive. You can do the same thing with download programs, because once you run the setup for the program you probably won't need it again unless you need to re-install it.

Last but not least clean up your internet temp files and the files in your temp folder.

Answer 3

Reinstalling any OS is a good idea from time to time. That is a good reason to keep all of your data backed up. If you want a larger hard drive this is a good time to consider the upgrade. As a matter of fact, if you up grade now you can leave you data on the current driv and make it the SLAVE, or second hard drive. Then you just drag and drop you information to the new drive once the new installation is complete. Once you have the PRIMARY or first hard drive setup you wipe the old drive(the now second drive) and use it to store data.
If you just want to reinstall windows insert you XP CD and boot from it. When prompted delete your partition. It will them ask you to crate a new partition, select yes. Make sure your new partition is NTFS and not FAT32. When that is complete you will again be prompted to select an option. Select to install XP.

If you go with a new hard drive consider a Seagate. They come with a 5 yr warrenty.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/313348

Answer 4

you dont neccessarily need to reinstall windows or reformat your hard drive to get more space. simply clean out the stuff you dont need manually or get your computer to do it for. you can do this by going into "my computer" and right click on the (C:) drive go down the list and select properties (the last choice). a screen will pop up and you should click on disk cleanup it will give you a list of things the computer may delete or compress and you simply select the ones you wanted compressed or deleted. compressed files will always run normally when you open them, deleted ones are gone forever.

if this question is about a game not being able to run on windows xp it may not be you hard drive. some games simply do not work on windows xp.

Answer 5

Try disk cleanup first before you start completely over. Reinstalling XP will require you have your install cd.

Answer 6

Along with your computer you should have gotten an extra windows xp disc. all you have 2 do is put it in the slot and it will give you instructions on how to do it

Answer 7

-Remove unnecessary files and folders.
-Clean up your temp folders. Try windowwasher http://www.webroot.com/consumer/products/windowwasher/?rc=4929&ac=5187469
-Uninstall unnecessary programs.
-Defrag your hard drive.

After you have done all these things then you evaluate if you still need to clean install WinXP.