I have a SP2 CD. I had to format my hard drive, and I'm afraid if I make a mistake in installing this, it won't work, or something will go wrong.
Thank you in advance,
Lorraine
2007-01-05 10:51:53 · 11 answers · asked by flherewecome1 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
I had viruses on my pc and decided the best way was to format. With XP it is of course a different story from Windows 98 where you merely go to the C prompt and say Format c. With XP, insert your CD (after you went into teh BIOS and changed the BOOT drive to be CD. Folow on screen. I do not know how old your pc is, but I would suggest you do the NTFS partition when it askes you whether you want to format the partition using FAT32 or NTFS. Thereafter the installation will run itself. Good luck. One thing though - as long as you have all your other software and data safely on cds, should something go wrong with the XP installation, it is easy to quickly redo. I hope this helps you.
2007-01-08 00:56:07 · answer #1 · answered by Kuschke 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Put the disc in your cd/dvd drive and start the installation like usual. Win XP SP2 installation process should be much easier than win xp since the SP2 has all kind of fixes,updates and drivers.
2007-01-05 10:56:12 · answer #2 · answered by Ted B 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the format went ok, and you reinstalled xp back on with no problems, go ahead and install sp2, sp2 does not like being installed on an infected machine etc, but seen as you have formatted and reinstalled xp you should have no probs with sp2
2007-01-05 10:57:15 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, if you have any Windows XP system, then SP2 will work. I used it on mine, worked perfectly. But I never had to format my hard drive for that.
All you have to do is put the disk in. Then follow all instructions.
Good luck!
2007-01-05 10:57:40 · answer #4 · answered by xFrozen 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lorraine,
This link should do it: http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html
What you are doing is a Clean Install and it is probably the best was to do an install with out much headache. If you prefer you can get the .PDF file and just print it for reference as you go through the steps.
http://michaelstevenstech.com/pdf/XP%20Clean%20Install.pdf
Best of luck,
Ynot
2007-01-05 11:14:07 · answer #5 · answered by Ynot 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It won't attempt to load over sp3. Secondly, why are you trying to reinstall your OS? You CLEARLY do not have enough disk space and sp3 isn't causing the problem. Its all the crap you have on the drive. Clean some of it out. Store some on an external hard drive. When you get some hard drive space, do a defrag
2016-05-23 07:12:23 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on which version you have.
Boot into the windows CD and follow the steps on this website for your appropriate version.
http://www.windowsreinstall.com/#vista_xp_2000
2007-01-05 10:53:20 · answer #7 · answered by Heh? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just put the disk in and follow the prompts. It's pretty easy, and you can always try again.
2007-01-05 10:54:05 · answer #8 · answered by janfitc 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can't make a mistake, just dive in.
2007-01-05 10:54:05 · answer #9 · answered by Soundjata 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't worry,there will be no mistake!
2007-01-05 11:04:58 · answer #10 · answered by al_pazo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋