Re: Formatting a hard drive

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From: Michael Stevens (Mstevens_at_bogusmvps.org)
Date: 05/20/04 

Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 23:42:53 -0700

"Bugs Bunny" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Don't do this - you'll be sorry if your BIOS is suddenly
gone !

Bugs Bunny,

Please don't give advice when you don't have no clue!!!
Deleting a partition has absolutely no affect on the BIOS.
Deleting the partitions is exactly what should be done when they get the
message the OP received.
Information on alternate methods for clean installing is in the link below.
Boot from the CD and do a clean install.
Click on or copy and paste the link below into your web browser address bar.
How to clean install XP.
http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html 

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>-----Original Message-----
>"Steve" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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>
>> I asked this deeper in a thread earlier, but it's
dropping
>> down the line, so I apologize for asking again.
>>
>> I'm trying to do a clean install of XP Home, and it had
XP
>> Home on it already. When I get to the screen to delete
the
>> partitions, I have 2 things showing :
>>
>> -: Partition1 [FAT32]  31MB (26MB Free)
>> C: Partition2 [NTFS]   76285MB (67079MB Free)
>>
>> I have followed a technical article on the site for
>> formatting a hard drive and it says to select the
partition
>> and delete it.
>>
>> When I try to delete the NTFS partition, it tells me
it's
>> in use with Temp setup files required to complete the
>> operation.
>>
>> How can I format it if I get this message? Also, do I
>> delete both partitions and start over?
>
>   Did you boot from the XP CD? It's strange that you'd
get that message
>if you did. You might try deleting the Fat 32 partiton
first. Delete both
>partitions... when you reinstall it will make another
small extra
>partition. That is normal and there's a reason for it,
but I've never
>figured out just what it is... :-)
>
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