Clean Loading Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2

Can anyone help please

I have recently upgraded my computer from windows Millenium to Windows XP2.
As I have never attempted anything like this before I chose the upgrade path
thinking that if all went wrong I could restore the ME setup.

After loading XP I loaded Symantec 2006 software from a cd and then
downloaded the updates. Unfortunately, although I tried this several times
the installation always hung Trusted applications. (According to a registry
clean up tool I have hundreds of registry problems). Could these be the
problem?

It was suggested that I should have opted for a clean installation. So
bearing in mind my problems I started to do this. I reached a point where I
was asked about disk partitions. The existing situation was two partitions
one of 16MB I believe it was and one of nearly 30 GBytes. Not knowing how to
proceed and further not knowing whether they would be further decisions which
I would be unable to make, I opted to stop the process until I knew more.

System Info is as follows:-

Processor AMD Athlon 1GHz
Bios Type Award 6.00 PG 19/09/2000
Memory 512MB
Graphics card 64MB NVidiaGeForce2 GTS Graphics
Sound Card Sound Blaster Live 5.1
Note the windows Millenium software is a restore cd.

My questions are :-

1) Is it best to try to fix the updated XP system or try to rebuild XP from
scratch?

2) If I go with the upgraded system is it wise to use a registry cleaner? If
so is there a Microsoft facility I could use?

3) If the answer is a clean build is the best way forward, are there any
more decisions to be made, which as little more than a novice, I will be
stuck with.


Thank you

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