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Formating Windows XP

Hi there everyone,i need some advice.
I'm about to format a pal's hard ddrive with win xp that takes 5 minutes to get to the desktop(gets stuck at 'welcome' screen) and we think the proper solution is formatting and reinstalling,even though the pc is brand new.

Can anyone advise anything else,apart from format(we've tried windows restore but it didn't work)?
If no,how can i format?i know that i need the win 98 cd,load it in dos,format from it because winxp does not support format,and then reinstall.Can someone make it more clear?
Thanx in advance
Greetz

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did u fuck with the network setting st all? i tried doinfg that once and i had the same problem with u and getting stuck on the welcome screen for awhile... if thats what u did then unfuck your network settings :P

I'm doin the same thing, use the discs.

Yeah,we did some fuck with the networks, after installing norton utilities and internet security.It stopped dialing up to connect to the internet,and that's probably the f!@#.can anyone propose a solution out of this,how to repair the network settings?

Greetz

Sounds liek you have currupted them. So try uninstalling and reinstalling yr network connections and settings.

Go into windows components in add remove software, and unclick all the boxes for network and dial up stuff. And then restart yr comp and click the box and instal them

That shoudl fix it.

But otherwise u can format and reinstal xp and have it up and running nice in 2 hours if you wanna do that

Just make yourself a boot disk. And get into dos then format c:



And XP boots from the cd, so change the setting in yr bios, prob atm at boot from floppy

I personally really like xp, but only xp pro

Re: Formating Windows XP

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Originally posted by Dj DoomForce because winxp does not support format

wtf???
Please explain?

I mean,from what i've heard(never tried it), windows XP does not support formatting drives and u need the win98 cd in order to get the format and fdisk commands.

Yeah but u can download boot disk software

That is what i did. Or get your dads laptop and make one

Has anyone here formated a hard drive in winXP and then reinstalled winXP?
PLEASE GIVE ADVICE ON HOW TO DO IT!! thanx

Use Windows 2000 Professional.

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Originally posted by Dj DoomForce Has anyone here formated a hard drive in winXP and then reinstalled winXP? PLEASE GIVE ADVICE ON HOW TO DO IT!! thanx

well.. i haven't done it, but windows XP will let your format. i think anyway, just start it in dos.

*checks*

hmm.. fuck. you can't reboot to dos in XP can you.. you could open up a dos WINDOW, or just go to the run command and hit format c:/

but, i'm not positve that would work from within windows.

anyway, there must be someway. if you have two hard drives like C drive and D drive (not one partioned into two) you could format one from the other one. like you can format D i mean, because the operating system is on C.

so.. then put win98 onto D, and then format C from there? i don't know seems like a fuck of a lot of work.

in anycase, blank out the drive somehow, and then just pop in the XP cd.

Hi,

I have this problem. Im trying to format XP, and having great difficulty. If you HAVENT formatted in XP, please dont bother to reply, as formating XP is different (and more of a task) than formatting 98 and 95. Xp doesnt NOT have dos. There for you cant re start in dos and type format c:

Ive tried making a boot disk from within Xp by using the format/create boot disk function in my computer however this doesnt have the commands for format.

Does anyone know how to do it? Ive tried looking on the net but some of their descriptions are vaque as fuck.

try booting with the 2000 or XP CD. and run setup. You can either delete the partition, or re-format it. Should not be too hard

xxx
fox

i tried putting in the XP cd... but it re booted as normal

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Originally posted by DaveC i tried putting in the XP cd... but it re booted as normal

heh.

go to the bios and make sure "boot from cd" is the first option in the booting menu. also make sure your xp cd is *bootable*

btw... when it starts booting, it will require you to press anykey on your keyboard otherwise, it will boot from your harddrive.

xxx
fox

fox is right, boot from the xp cd and there you can fdisk and format

Thanks Guys, the bios thing worked nicely

on some motherboards pressing esc or f8 brings up a "selecet device to boot from" menu to

dave - u sud have asked me in first place! :P nice to see the colours ok 2nite

Wow this is wierd..my old threads come to life!
Btw i've much improved since that day on bios-format-reinstallXP stuff.I'd be glad if i could be of any help!

well at least it shows the search buttons geting used properley!

reformating Xp is great if ur system is slow or full of junks. make sure u ghost it so u dont have reformat everything again.

imm going to have to reformat soon i need to return my mobo and imm goign to get a different one, just as i got it setup to how i like it

It's always this way. As soon as you get used to the set-up,you have to format the disk
There are these winXp boot disks which will help you format the disk.
Fortunately, up to now,there was no neccesity to format my Hd,so I haven't mastered the ways.

see if you can locate another hard drive.
swap that one with the existing one..and set it to master(make the other on with XP as slave). Take a DOS bootdisk and boot up. once the booting sequence is done, type format d:\(d:\ being ur slave drive with XP on it)
its the easiest and cleanest way to get rid of XP. I find XP a pain in the ass to format in other ways

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