Re: reinstall XP Home - Big, challenging problem here!

From: Haus (youknow_at_Iwillslapyou)
Date: 06/15/04 

Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 20:41:39 -0500

Hello
Sounds to me like you did not boot from the XP cd, you put the cd in after
the computer was already running and then chose Full Install.

You will need to put the XP cd in then shut the computer down, Then start
the computer, if the HDD is set to boot before the ROM drive then you will
need to change the boot order in the BIOS.

After booting with the cd in you will get a message, Press any Key to Boot
>From CD, at that point hit the space bar you will have to be quick for the
message will only appear for a few seconds.

Then it will start copping some files, then at the next ? you will choose
>Enter< then >F8< to accept license agreement, then you will be asked to put
in the qualifying cd, put the 98 cd in, then you will be able to choose a
partition to install on or delete the partitions one at a time and create
new one then format to NTFS (not the quick one), then you can continue the
install, at one point the computer will restart and you will see the Press
any Key to Boot From the CD message again (Do Not Press a Key) the setup
will continue.

http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_sg_clean.asp 

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Hope This Helps
Haus
Not a MVP
Not a MS-MVP
Not nothing just a good ole boy..;)
"Bob" <jyd982@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1c53c01c45274$e286b720$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> Here's the story.
>
> My wife has XP home. She got a virus or something where
> she couldn't access the net and Norton could not download
> new files. Reinstalled XP, but it would lock up whenever
> it wanted to. I disabled all screen savers and power mgt
> utilities. seemed to be ok until she reinstalled
> Norton... same problem again. Finally with no Norton the
> system would still lock up after she installed SP1.
>
> I've heard of some people having problems with SP1, I
> haven't. Anyway, she decided she needed to rip everything
> out and format C: drive. Big mistake!!! This is why.
>
> 1. She had switched over to NTFS
> 2. her XP copy is an upgrade only, which means she needs
> to show proof of a previous Windows copy to continue.
> (the old choice of putting in 98 or ME to prove this and
> then switching back to the XP disk is not available to
> her- question was not asked)
> 3. We hauled out our old Win 98SE disk which is a full
> version.
> 4. You guessed it!!!! it loads just so far and keeps
> rebooting itself automatically.
>
> Problem- disk is now NTFS which 98SE can't see or use.
>
> I tried fdisk and deleted all partitions then reformated.
> NTFS is still there. If I choose in fdisk - largest max
> size for logical dos drive... there is no space left on
> this 80 gig drive, the rest being NTFS. If I choose No to
> largest size, 989SE starts to install and gets to about
> 25% and does it's first reboot. At this point it keeps
> rebooting and rebooting all by itself.
>
> what I need to do is to get rid of NTFS and get it back
> to FAT32, but I can't seem to do it. I have an old copy
> of pqmagic which offers ntfs and htfs (which I know
> nothing about)but not FAT32 when partitioning. It can do
> FST32 but FAT32 is not one of my choices... only ntfs,
> htfs and Linix32 or something like that.
>
> There has got to be a way to dump NTFS and get back to
> FAT32! My pqmagic is version 4.0 - pretty old.
>
> I've tried format c: /s /fs nothing works. Format C:
> works but as I said above I have little room left to
> install 98SE so I can upgrade to XP again. I wonder if
> there are just certain files to load which XP will
> recognize as a previous version and therefore will
> install. At that point XP should install into the NTFS
> file system.
>
> so- either- 1. a few command filoes which XP will see as
> previous copy. Or 2. find out how to get rid of NTFS and
> back to FAT32 so 98SE will install, allowing me to
> upgrade to XP on my wife's computer. Or am I totally off
> my rocker and screwed! :) Bob

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