RE: formatting with xp home installed

From: BAR (BAR_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 08/25/04

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Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 06:21:03 -0700

Things have mooved on from those days, thankfully.

Just boot up your PC off the XP installation CD.

You will have the option to reinstall and also choose to delete existing
partition and reformat.

This will complete and Windows XP will install.

"Phil Sandford" wrote:

> How can I completely reformat my hard drive with XP home installed. With
> win98se I just went to dos and used the format c:/s command
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