Re: wiping disk & reinstalling XP & Office


"Robert McN" <RobertMcN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I have an aging laptop, but it still works fine and I want to continue
>using
> it. When I bought it, it came equipped with Windows 98. When XP was
> released I bought a copy and it worked fine. Then about a year ago, I
> tried
> to install XP SP2. Unfortunately, what happened is that the download
> filled
> the every last kilobyte of the hard disk, and then informed me that there
> was
> insufficient hard disk space. Every since the laptop has been all but
> unusable.
>
> What I would like to do is to wipe the disk and start over. Two
> questions:
>
> 1. How does one go about "wiping a disk"
> 2. If I do so, will I have problems pertaining to the registration? It is
> a
> legal copy, but my impression is that to reinstall Windows, I might run
> into
> problems as it may appear as if I'm trying to copy the software onto a
> second
> machine.
> a. Related to that, if I want to reinstall my copy of MS Office, again, I'm
> concerned that I will encounter registration problems.
>
> Any information on how to address these problems would be most
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Bob
>

You can wipe the drive during reinstallation. Read the menus as they appear,
and when you have the choice, delete the existing partitions and everything
will be gone. Then continue the install.

Activation will be fine; at worst you have to make a phone call, but that's
pretty unlikely. If you do call, chances are you get to talk to the
computerized voice. If that fails, you talk to a live person, and every time
I've done that I've thought that I really glad to be the one making the call
rather than the one who has to take the calls for 8 hours a day.

Registration is entirely optional.


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