OS is Windows XP
2007-01-29 11:09:11 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
Put in your Windows XP reinstall cd and click reinstall windows XP then find Reformat NTFS!! There you go!
Or put this hdd in another computer as a slave (second HDD) and right click on the drive and click format!
2007-01-29 11:13:02 · answer #1 · answered by Joe10 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You can do this several ways. First, make sure to make a backup of anything you may possibly need, IP addresses, E-mail settings, Music, Data, etc. either use the windows backup utility, or something like NERO or Roxio. or you can make it easy, and just burn a copy of your hard drive to disc. just in case.
secondly, make sure you have any and all software media that you plan on re-installing, or your upgrade CD/DVD's on hand and with you.
Then, you want to have either a blank CD or Floppy, just in case a program wants a boot disk.
You can use the windows format utility by either booting into dos from a startup CD, or using your Windows Setup CD. If you're just doing a clean install, you can do this when you install windows. it's clean and pain free. takes anywhere from 15 minutes to over two hours, depending on the size of your hard drive.
Next, you'll want to install whatever version of windows or linux you plan to install. if it's winxp, make sure you install service pack 2 before you go any further.
after service pack two is installed, you can either run all the updates (which takes about an hour or so on a highspeed connection, or forever and a half over dialup) or start installing applications and restoring data.
Make sure you have all the updated software first. Then the first application you'll want to install would be your antivirus software. secondly would be any major applications, and finally, you can restore your data.
have fun!
2007-01-29 20:09:23 · answer #2 · answered by rolandofgilead54 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go here for full details. Its different if you have NTFS file system rather than FAT32 so check first and make sure you back up all important stuff first because reformatting wipes your drive clean
Here is website with full info
http://www.cyberwalker.net/faqs/reinstall-reformat-winxp/index.html
2007-01-29 19:21:00 · answer #3 · answered by balijohn2006 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
first back up everything and put in the install cd click install xp it will ask u 3 ways to format ur hardrive
2007-01-29 19:40:50 · answer #4 · answered by Matt 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
From a command prompt, type "fdisk C". Or right-click the disk in windows and click "format".
2007-01-29 19:14:20 · answer #5 · answered by antirion 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi. First back up everything you want to keep. Go to the command prompt and type "Format C:" if you want C to be formatted. Make sure you have the installation dick FIRST.
2007-01-29 19:14:28 · answer #6 · answered by Cirric 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
insert an old windows 98 backup disk, when the black screen comes up go to command prompt
type f disk
then format
2007-01-29 19:32:22 · answer #7 · answered by Lynx 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋