Formatting drives

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[David]

I think the simplest way is to boot from your Windows installation CD. You'll be asked which partition you want to install to, at which point you can format the existing C:\\ partition and install there

and it won't have any effect on the available capacity :)

[Barley]

[quote:4a09deccab=\"David\"]I think the simplest way is to boot from your Windows installation CD. You'll be asked which partition you want to install to, at which point you can format the existing C:\\ partition and install there

and it won't have any effect on the available capacity :)[/quote:4a09deccab]

Yep spot on. Don't format it yourself, let Windows XP do it when you boot from the XP CD to re-install.

[Anonymous]

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[David]

Easy enough to get round that too. 'D' deletes the partition entirely, so do that and then set up a new partition. (I think it defaults to the max available size so you don't need to worry there).

You'll then have an empty raw partition which you can format and install to

http://www.atlguide2000.com/windowsxp/instxp7a.jpg

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[djdaface]

put a magnet against it





Always a good way to wipe your drive


not sure if it will work again after but gets your data clean off!

[Anonymous]

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[Barley]

Installing XP takes less than 30 minutes :)

[Anonymous]

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[Barley]

[quote:076dc12cca=\"PrivatePyle@Work\"][quote:076dc12cca=\"Barley\"]Installing XP takes less than 30 minutes :)[/quote:076dc12cca]

Not if you are a badge holding member of Muppet's Anonymous, which I most certainly am :oops:[/quote:076dc12cca]

:D

[House]

Hi, newbie here (although I've lurked for a while).

When you format the drive, make sure you go NTFS rather than Fat32. Although I don't mean to teach you how to suck eggs...

One thing I do is to create a OS partition of around 15gb, and only install vital things there. All other files go into other partitions. That way, if the OS goes wonky all I need to do in theory is format the OS partition and reinstall.

Hope that is of some help. If I'm doing something massively wrong that someone can point out, please tell me, as I've set up a few other machines to run this way too!

[Anonymous]

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[House]

Thanks for the welcome! There's very little better than having a fresh install. Well, aside from getting a nice new machine.

How do you find WMP11? I gave it a try, didn't like it and then found it near impossible to remove.

[Anonymous]

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[House]

I found it to be too high on glitter and to low on practical functionality. I'm still using a pretty basic version of winamp - it does everything I need it to, namely queue up a few tracks and play the music to me. Everything else is wasted on me, since I switch my screen off when I'm listening to music most times.

VLC and Zoom player are my movie players at the moment. Aside from the old Xbox, that is.