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I didn't want to install XP, but if it's going to make my life easier, I will.

Can I just format the harddrive using the CD? and what configurations should I use?

If not can someone e-mail me a Disc Tools to format the harddrive, thanks

Can I just format the harddrive using the CD?

Yes but why?  Just stop the install after you format the Hard drive.

You sould use NTFS and leave about 5 MB unused.

You can get at the remaining unpartitioned hard drive space by going into 'Control Panel>Administrator tools>Drives' where you will see the remaining hard drive space as unpartitioned. You can launch the wizard to get this space partitioned how you like (the wizard may launch automatically).

You should have installed 2000 first.   And Even thou they say you can problems can come up because the Operating systems are almost the same.

You can read about how to do it hear. 
http://www.win.net/optimator/WinWiz/AD/ … alBoot.htm  This link was found at http://www.techtutorials.com


Buy the way you kid is soooooo cute.

Ummm, formatting hard drives is a royal pain in the a$$. I hate doing it.

The last time I did a wipe/reinstall (oh, about two hours ago, now. Computer's working fine.) I had top boot from a Windows 98 CD (to get a DOS prompt, Windows 2000 doesn't do that), run fdisk to destroy my old NTFS partition (containing evil Windows XP) pop a Windows 95OSR2.5 CD (to get a valid format command - not part of windows 98s setup CD, but the 95 CD isn't bootable) into my second CD-ROM drive, run the format utility (format C and then eject all the CDs, insert the Windows 2000 CD, restart the computer, and let the MS wizards take it from there.

Has Microsoft ever heard of a clean install? Jeez.

Oh well, I least I figured out how to do it without a floppy disk.

Windows CDs since 98 have been bootable, and will install themselves on a system with an appropriately prepared (FAT32) hard drive. 2000 and XP will automatically reformat the drive as NTFS before installing. Too bad 2000 won't see anunformatted partition and let me select that... it would have saved me a heck of alot of searching for CDs.

-dvpierce

Well they do.  Windows 2000 and up.  BUT you need to be a computer genus to use it.  It dose not just come out and hit you like the Mac dose.

Take our friend dvpierce.  I can do everything that he talked about with a 2000 CD (of curse his solution shows grate intelligence and problem solving skills).  But you have to read all those stupid blue screen instructions vary carefully.  And know how to speak Microsoft.

Well they do.  Windows 2000 and up.  BUT you need to be a computer genus to use it.  It dose not just come out and hit you like the Mac dose.

Take our friend dvpierce.  I can do everything that he talked about with a 2000 CD (of curse his solution shows grate intelligence and problem solving skills).  But you have to read all those stupid blue screen instructions vary carefully.  And know how to speak Microsoft.

*begins slobbering all over himself*

So, how _do_ you do it with just a Windows 2000 Install CD? (Mine's an OEM CD w/ SP2, if that makes a difference...)

I'm not too keen on wiping my drive again just to find out, but I'll these directions on file. They'll probably come in handy.

Thanks a lot!

After all that I found the sight I was looking for.http://www.techtutorials.com/tutorials/xp/xpinstallation.shtml Ok Ok it is all about installing Xp but it shows most of what I was talking.

Hey guys, how do I check the CPUs temp?

2 ways usually. Either your motherboard manufacturer shipped a utility that you can install from your mobo CD that allows you to check the cpu temp or you can go into the BIOS in most systems and check in there.

-=Jax=-

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