Re: Format C:



On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 10:41:15 -0700, Peter4446
<Peter4446@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Thank you all for the advice. Its now working... have deleted unwanted
> partition and am in process of formating C: !! Previously I started with CD
> in drive and it seemed to boot from that (but apparently not). This time I
> changed the BIOS to boot from CD.... and as a result, Setup worked properly.
> Thanks again guys, great help.
>
> Peter

What you are describing is properly referred to as "Starting the XP
Setup program from within Windows", not "booting the machine using the
XP CD", as we advised.

Donald L McDaniel
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