Re: A FRESH START

don wrote:

I AM GOING TO RE INSTALL WIN XP PRO ASAP, JUST WANTING TO KNOW THE
BEST METHOD OF CLEANING ALL DATA BEFOREHAND SO THAT I HAVE NO OLD
STUFF COMING BACK ON THE NEW INSTALLATION. HAVE JUST BOUGHT AN EXT HD
AND HAVE SENT PHOTOS AND SOME DOCS I WISH TO KEEP TO THAT.
ANY ADVISE WELCOME AS I WOULD APPRECIATE A CLEAN HD AS POSSIBLE


Ouch! Please don't yell at us. We can hear you if you type normally, in
mixed case.

When you reinstall Windows, the first step is formatting the drive. That
takes everything off the drive, so there is no need to do any "CLEANING ALL
DATA BEFOREHAND."

Just boot from the Windows XP CD (change the BIOS boot order if necessary to
accomplish this) and follow the prompts for a clean installation (delete the
existing partition by pressing "D" when prompted, then create a new one).

You can find detailed instructions here:
http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

or here http://windowsxp.mvps.org/XPClean.htm

or here http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/clean_install.htm

--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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