if you don't have that disk any more but you bought windows xp that u can put on it. normally i would press F2 at start up and change the boot up sequence, but that's on xp and i couldn't find a place 2 do that on windows me. i want to get rid of everything and just start fresh w/ windows xp
2007-08-16 17:32:41 · 5 answers · asked by green_day_luvr_77 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
i have no idea what a bios is so if i just put the cd in and click install on what pops up will it create a dual operating system or will it get rid of everything else also?
2007-08-17 07:39:14 · update #1
Just format it. Opening BIOS menu (w/ Del or F2) has nothing to do with Windows. You can actually open BIOS even if there is no HDD present. So go ahead and change the boot sequence in BIOS.
2007-08-16 18:05:33 · answer #1 · answered by Karz 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Put the windows XP install disk into the drive and boot to it.
A menu will appear that shows you "Partitions"
Press D and delete all partitions then make one called C
(by pressing C)
Format that with NTFS on the next screen, (not the quick format)
If your windows XP disk will not do this, then you have purchased the wrong disk. (ak you have the full version, but need the upgrade version)
Another method of doing this is to go to bootdisk.com and download a program to create a boot floppy disk.
Boot to that disk and when the command line appears type:
FDISK
it will run a program that will allow you to view and delete partitions.
Select the last partition and delete it.
Keep doing that till all partitions are gone.
Then boot to the winXP disk
2007-08-17 00:52:58 · answer #2 · answered by Albert Hall 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If for some reason the XP disk won't boot on it's own,(Win98, and WinMe had a quirk about this, security thing), you're right, you'll have to change the boot order by getting into the BIOS Setup Utility. Try pressing F1 or Delete, to enter it. You may want to peruse Computerhope for more keys used to enter BIOS...........
2007-08-17 01:22:34 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You should be able to just put new OS/WXP CD into drive and follow instructions, if it does not open, contact Microsoft customer support and ask then to guide you through installation. After installing set to receive automatic updates.
http://support.microsoft.com
To open CD you can go to my computer and right click on CD drive and choose open.
Hope this helps
2007-08-17 10:09:12 · answer #4 · answered by Bassman1 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dude if you cant do that your dumb. lol. just kidding hun. your my cuz so i can be mean. well i dono. read the instructions. they come with it for a reason. if i had a cord id plug it in
2007-08-17 19:03:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋