Re: formatting the hardrive and reinstalling xp

From: Alvin Brown (alvin1_at_swbell.net)
Date: 02/20/04 

Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 08:31:32 -0600

Hello

Well go into your system Bios and make the cdrom the primary
boot device and save and restart your pc, from that point you will
boot from the XP cdrom and just follow what it
says to do

Alvin

"e.j." wrote:

> caught a virus and it seems to have messed up the xp
> program. everything runs slower between tasks. i need to
> format hard drive and reinstall xp. i am a licensed owner
> with the cd (xp). can you walk me through the steps of
> formatting HD and reinstalling windows. thanks, ej.

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