Re: Reformat

From: Michael Stevens (Mstevens_at_bogusmvps.org)
Date: 05/08/04 

Date: Sat, 8 May 2004 01:47:44 -0700

Tim wrote:
> My sister really screwed up my PC, so I decided the best way to knock
> out everything she downloaded (such as spyWare and AdWare) was to
> reformat. Now I've done this numerous times on many PC's, and have
> never run into the problem I am facing now.
>
> I go to do a fresh install, and when it comes to the screen where I
> am supposed to delete my current partition and create a new one, the
> "box" instead of showing my partiotns, says "unknown disc space.
> Setup Cannot access this disk"
>
> Now I am completely stumped. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Boot from the CD and do a clean install.
Click on or copy and paste the link below into your web browser address bar.
How to clean install XP.
http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html 

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