I have just bought a second hand computer which had an illegal copy of
windows xp home on it along with a illegal copy of windows xp pro.I have
bought myself and new windows xp disk but my question is how do i remove
then from my hard drives (yes theres one of each of the hard drives) I have
made a dos disk and started up in dos mode but i cant seem to change the
drive from A drive to C or D drive which are the two hard drives.It keeps
coming up a invalid drive.what am i doing wrong?
Dos mode can't see NTFS partitions. You don't need that. The
installation CD has all the tools needed to delete the old partitions
and install XP. See this link:
Re: it takes about 5 minutes to switch directories ... Keep your computer up to date with Windows Update and double ... option to Save to Disk or to Run. ... You have insufficient free disk space on your main hard drive. ... Again do it on both drives ignoring the "You do not ... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support)
Re: DOS prompt in W2K? and Safe Mode? ... and windows booted up normally. ... How to get to a real DOS prompt to run chkdsk w/o processes?... you wish to check other drives then you may be able to close ...CheckDisk is a powerful tool for searching and repairing disk errors. ... (microsoft.public.win2000.general)
Re: Dual boot disk replacement ... >> copying all of the files and attempting to boot to the new drive I receive ... >> disk configuration error message and Windows 2000 will not boot. ... I've looked at the drives in the disk manager and this ... (microsoft.public.win2000.general)
Re: Can anyone explain this!?! ... > Well, if nothing else, I've learnt all about the Event Manager, which is ... >> that your CD and/or DVD drives do not work for either format? ... >>> into either of my drives, then I can hear the disk... I guess it's trying to read the windows... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support)
