Re: Installing XP problem

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From: Jupiter Jones [MVP] (jones_jupiter_at_hotnomail.com)
Date: 02/18/05 

Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 17:38:08 -0700

A Clean Installation gets rid of EVERYTHING on that partition.
But unless there is a reason to do otherwise, delete the partitions. 

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Jupiter Jones  [MVP]
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"Mateo" <noneat@usa.net> wrote in message 
news:cv3beh$qga$1@sunce.iskon.hr...
> There are 2 options at the begining one is Repair and one is Clean Install 
> ,
> am'I right and that's it? Have to choose the Clean Install and Win will be
> installed over the old ones,right?  Does this means that previous windows
> are completely deleted (he doesn't have any valuable data on C:) or just
> "repaired"?
> I did this with w98 and w2k but I'm not familiar with XP.

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