Re: Want to start from scratch but problems when I reboot

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Your winxp is bootable, you may have to enable boot from cd in the bios.
With winxp home you can only do a clean install, on a sys that has pro, the
cd contains all the options for deleting, creating, formating partitons
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

"datman" <datman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I just recently found out that the computer I bought has an invalid
Product
Key. I bought the computer in Taiwan and it has a Chinese Version of XP
Professional on it. I decided to buy a proper English Copy of XP Home
Edition, but every time I try to boot from the CD, or I progress to the
Windows Setup option, my computer hangs.

I have an Intel 2.8GHz Ht Pentium 4
1 GB Kingston RAM
NVidia 6600GT 128 MB video card
Hitachi 80G SATA HD
Microsoft Wireless Desktop Elite Cordless Keyboard and Mouse

There's some other crap, but I don't think it really matters with the
installation. When I got the computer, it had a 20 GB C: drive, and
almost
30 GB's each for the D: and E: drive. I want to erase everything and
start
all over again. I tried to find out what I could about FDISKing my HD,
but
XP doesn't seem to have that option. And there seems to be no way that I
can
just boot with my XP disk so I can completely start anew. If possible, I
want to delete all the partitions on my HD and redo it as 2x 40 GB
partitions.


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